From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, kladit@t-online.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dentry cache leak? Re: rsync out of memory 2.6.8-rc2
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 16:55:03 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <410F36C7.5060103@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040731143925.014ce12a.akpm@osdl.org>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-03 6:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-26 15:06 dentry cache leak? Re: rsync out of memory 2.6.8-rc2 Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-26 19:37 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-26 20:02 ` Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-26 20:38 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-26 21:39 ` Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-26 22:14 ` Jan-Frode Myklebust
2004-07-27 20:43 ` Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-27 21:05 ` Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-28 1:21 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-28 15:06 ` Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-29 3:31 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-29 21:07 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-30 16:30 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-07-30 19:47 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-31 2:01 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-07-31 17:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-31 21:39 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-03 6:55 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
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2004-08-01 9:47 Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-19 9:19 Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-19 11:20 ` dentry cache leak? " bert hubert
[not found] ` <20040719113228.GA15295@outpost.ds9a.nl>
2004-07-19 12:56 ` Klaus Dittrich
2004-07-26 1:06 ` Andrew Morton
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