Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 04 Mar 2006 14:28:21 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: VFS nr_files accounting | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 14:22:02 -0800 (PST)
> From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> > Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 19:47:17 +0530 > > > Dave, there is a set of patches in -mm that may handle this > > better - > > > > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc5/2.6.16-rc5-mm2/broken-out/rcu-batch-tuning.patch > > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc5/2.6.16-rc5-mm2/broken-out/fix-file-counting.patch > > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc5/2.6.16-rc5-mm2/broken-out/fix-file-counting-fixes.patch > > > > Could you please try this in your setup ? > > > > The rcu-batch tuning patch provides automatic switching to > > process as many RCUs as possible if too many of them are queued. > > The file counting fixes count the file structures correctly. > > Thanks, I'll give these patches a spin.
Sigh, this is going to take a while, because there are -mm dependencies in these patches such as percpu_counter_sum().
I'll have to fish those out of -mm before I can start testing this. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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