From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 09:53:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 09:53:32 -0400 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:12824 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 09:53:15 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 15:52:53 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Rik van Riel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.5pre2aa1 Message-ID: <20010516155253.A15796@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010515235916.B2415@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 08:42:03PM -0300 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 08:42:03PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > Detailed description of 2.4.5pre2aa1 follows. > > > 00_buffer-2 > > > > Reschedule during oom while allocating buffers, still getblk > > can deadlock with oom but this will hide it pretty well as > > it won't loop in a tight loop anymore. > > These descriptions are very helpful. Are they available somewhere I'm happy to hear that. > for all your (recent) patches? Almost everything was shortly described in my last emails. Those descriptions are available also as .log into my ftp area. Andrea