From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:42:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20070911060349.993975297@sgi.com> <200709111144.48743.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <200709111453.42650.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Mel Gorman , andrea@suse.de, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Mel Gorman , William Lee Irwin III , David Chinner , Jens Axboe , Badari Pulavarty , Maxim Levitsky , Fengguang Wu , swin wang , totty.lu@gmail.com, hugh@veritas.com, joern@lazybastard.org To: Nick Piggin Return-path: Received: from netops-testserver-4-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:60167 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754480AbXIKUmZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:42:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200709111453.42650.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > I guess you would have to run that without my targeted slab reclaim > > patchset? Otherwise the slab that are in the way could be reclaimed and > > you could not produce your test case. > > I didn't realise you had patches to move pinned dentries, radix tree nodes, > task structs, page tables etc. Did I miss them in your last patchset? You did not mention that in your earlier text. If these are issues then we certainly can work on that. Could you first provide us some real failure conditions so that we know that these are real problems?