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From: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ebmunson@us.ibm.com,
	mel@linux.vnet.ibm.com, cl@linux-foundation.org,
	stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: meminfo Committed_AS underflows
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:17:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1240906631.29485.75.camel@nimitz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090427202707.9d36ce8a.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 20:27 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> There's potential here for weird performance regressions, so I think
> that if we do this in mainline, we should wait a while (a few weeks?)
> before backporting it.
> 
> Do we know how long this bug has existed for?  Quite a while, I
> expect?

Yeah, we didn't notice it until a recent enterprise distro got a config
with NR_CPUS=1024.  That opened the window up in a major way because of
the way we calculated the threshold.

-- Dave

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-28  8:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-14 19:33 meminfo Committed_AS underflows Dave Hansen
2009-04-15  2:04 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-04-15  3:34   ` Balbir Singh
2009-04-15  4:10     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-04-15  8:47       ` Balbir Singh
2009-04-27 20:27         ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-28  3:07           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-04-28  3:27             ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-28  4:25               ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-04-28  8:17               ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2009-04-15  4:12   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-04-15  8:33 ` Alan Cox

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