From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de>,
Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VM in 2.4.7-pre hurts...
Date: 09 Jul 2001 21:44:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3g0c5c2fn.fsf@linux.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107090915310.14024-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107090915310.14024-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
Hi Linus,
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Does it help if you just remove the
>
> if (atomic_read(&page->count) > 2)
> goto out;
>
> from shmem_writepage()?
>
> It _shouldn't_ matter (because writepage() should only be called
> with inactive pages anyway), but your problem certainly sounds like
> your inactive dirty list is not able to write out shmfs pages.
No, it does matter. It prevents races against getpage.
Greetings
Christoph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-09 19:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107081640570.308-100000@mikeg.weiden.de>
2001-07-08 15:43 ` VM in 2.4.7-pre hurts Rik van Riel
2001-07-08 17:15 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-07-08 17:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-08 18:23 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-08 19:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-09 2:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-10 2:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-10 4:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-10 4:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-10 5:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-10 14:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-10 18:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-10 5:11 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-09 7:56 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-07-09 8:25 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-07-09 9:18 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-07-09 9:29 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-07-09 9:38 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-07-09 11:17 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-07-09 11:30 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-07-09 12:26 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-07-09 11:25 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-07-09 12:20 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-07-09 16:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-09 19:44 ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2001-07-09 20:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-11 19:39 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-07-11 1:05 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-07-11 4:03 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-07-12 5:00 ` David Lang
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0107071542420.17825-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>
2001-07-07 18:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-07 20:11 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-08 17:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-08 18:29 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-07 13:41 Jeff Garzik
2001-07-07 14:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-07 17:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-07 17:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-07 17:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-07 18:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-07 18:11 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-07 21:33 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-07 18:00 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-07 21:25 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-07 21:29 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-07 21:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-07 21:43 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-07 21:45 ` Rik van Riel
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