Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 15 Apr 2002 07:09:16 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] move the mempool list_head out of the managed elements |
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On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> But when the page allocator starts failing, and radix tree node > allocations are satisfied from the mempool, they come back with a > defunct list_head at the first eight bytes, and the ratcache dies in > subtle ways. > > A nasty part about this is that the problem only exhibits under very > high load.
good catch - your patch looks good to me.
Ingo
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