From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>,
t.baetzler@bringe.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
marcelo@conectiva.com.br
Subject: Re: xdr nfs highmem deadlock fix [Re: filesystem access slowing system to a crawl]
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:04:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030220230430.GX9800@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <shs1y22zhm9.fsf@charged.uio.no>
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:56:14PM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >>>>> " " == Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> writes:
>
> > 2.5.62 has the very same deadlock condition in xdr triggered by
> > nfs too.
> > Andrew, if you're forward porting it yourself like with the
> > filebacked vma merging feature just let me know so we make sure
> > not to duplicate effort.
>
> For 2.5.x we should rather fix MSG_MORE so that it actually works
> instead of messing with hacks to kmap().
>
> For 2.4.x, Hirokazu Takahashi had a patch which allowed for a safe
> kmap of > 1 page in one call. Appended here as an attachment FYI
> (Marcelo do *not* apply!).
One should also consider kmap_atomic... (bcrl suggest)
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-20 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-04 9:29 filesystem access slowing system to a crawl Thomas Bätzler
2003-02-05 9:03 ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-02-05 9:39 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-19 16:42 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-02-19 17:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-20 15:29 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-02-20 18:35 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-20 21:32 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-02-20 21:41 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-20 22:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-20 21:54 ` xdr nfs highmem deadlock fix [Re: filesystem access slowing system to a crawl] Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-20 22:56 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-02-20 23:04 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-02-20 23:12 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-02-21 9:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-22 0:40 ` David S. Miller
2003-02-23 15:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-21 9:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-21 9:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-21 20:52 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-21 21:32 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-02-20 23:15 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-02-21 9:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-21 19:41 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-02-21 19:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-02-26 23:17 ` filesystem access slowing system to a crawl Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-02-27 8:51 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-02-20 19:30 ` William Stearns
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