Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Oct 1998 15:53:39 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [patch] my latest oom stuff |
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On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, MOLNAR Ingo wrote:
>there is one more, not that i think it makes a difference in this case, >but i'd better put it into the public domain before someone gets bitten by >it: the RAID1 code has some critical places where it cannot allow a NULL >pointer, thus it does an infinit looping for a free page. The reason for
I am not using raid. I am using a simple standard hardware configuration.
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y CONFIG_M586=y CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y CONFIG_KMOD=y CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_PCI=y CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_SYSCTL=y CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y CONFIG_FIREWALL=y CONFIG_UNIX=y CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y CONFIG_EL3=y CONFIG_VT=y CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y CONFIG_JOLIET=y CONFIG_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_NLS=y CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_LOWLEVEL_SOUND=y CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
In all experiments I never use modules.
>RAID5 is already fixed, it does preallocation so we can always atomically >allocate stuff for a while IO transaction, but RAID1 isnt yet ... >[RAID0/LINEAR is not affected.]
Thanks for the info mingo!
Andrea Arcangeli
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