Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Feb 2002 18:45:45 +0100 (CET) | From | Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <> | Subject | Re: Errors in the VM - detailed |
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> Andrew did supply a patch for Riel but he did not accept all of it? > > Lets see again. Do I understand you correctly: > rmap 11c fixes the problem #1 but not 11b? are all later > rmaps good?
I've just tried 11c and 12a. Both are good. The change was made between 11b and 11c.
> > rmap 11c: > - oom_kill race locking fix (Andres Salomon) > - elevator improvement (Andrew Morton) > - dirty buffer writeout speedup (hopefully ;)) (me) > - small documentation updates (me) > - page_launder() never does synchronous IO, kswapd > and the processes calling it sleep on higher level (me) > - deadlock fix in touch_page() (me) > rmap 11b: > > Lets see, not oom condition, no dirty buffers (read "only"), > not documentation, page_launder (no dirty...), not deadlock. > Remaining is the elevator... And that can really be it! > (read ahead related too...) > > and 2.4.18-pre2 (or later) does not fix it?
I'll try.
> > 2.4.18-pre2: > - ... > - Fix elevator insertion point on failed > request merge (Jens Axboe) > - ... > pre1:
btw... I beleive the error #2 is Tux specific. I'm debugging it now. Sorry for that
roy
-- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, MCSE, MCNE, CLS, LCA
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