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DateTue, 7 Mar 2006 12:11:20 +0530
FromDipankar Sarma <>
SubjectRe: VFS nr_files accounting
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:39:04PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
> Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 17:08:47 +0530
> 
> > Great. I look forward to hearing from you about the results
> > with your test case.
> 
> It works quite fine so far, I haven't seen the filp exhaustion
> nor a highly fragmented filp SLAB.

Good to hear that.

> Instead, I'm not hitting other bugs that are of my own doing
> on Niagara, which is what I wanted to accomplish with these
> stress tests in the first place :-)

Not good :)

> I think we should seriously consider these patches for 2.6.16

Isn't it a little too late in the 2.6.16 cycle ? I would have
liked a little more time in -mm. Anyway, it is Linus' call. 
I can refresh the patches and submit against latest mainline
if Linus and Andrew want.

Thanks
Dipankar
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