Messages in this thread |  | | From | "M. Edward Borasky" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH] add vmalloc stats to meminfo | Date | Sun, 15 Sep 2002 10:44:12 -0700 |
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I'd still like a backport to the (Red Hat 7.3) 2.4.18 kernel if it is possible. I'm a big fan of statistics and logging them.
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-----Original Message----- From: William Lee Irwin III [mailto:wli@holomorphy.com] Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2002 10:26 AM To: M. Edward (Ed) Borasky Cc: Andrew Morton; Dave Hansen; Martin J. Bligh; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] add vmalloc stats to meminfo
On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Also, dynamic vmalloc allocations may very well be starved by boot-time >> allocations on systems where much vmallocspace is required for IO memory. >> The failure mode of such is effectively deadlock, since they block >> indefinitely waiting for permanent boot-time allocations to be freed up.
On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 10:23:24AM -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Thank you!! How difficult would it be to back-port this to 2.4.18?
Note the follow-up to this saying that the above paragraph was incorrect. It doesn't sleep except to allocate backing memmory.
Bill
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