Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 03 Aug 2004 16:55:03 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: dentry cache leak? Re: rsync out of memory 2.6.8-rc2 |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote: > >> Something like this (totally untested, may not compile, you get the idea) >> might work. Or not. Since the _rest_ of "shrink_slab()" doesn't know about >> zonelists, just making the "how many pages does this zone have free" take >> the zonelist into account might cause other problems. > > > No, I think it'll be OK. Problems in this area tend to be subtle, and take > time to appear. But I think this one is pretty safe. >
Yeah it is better than what we had before. It now has failure cases going the other way, but I like this for a non intrusive fix. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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