From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 538DA6B0047 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:11:04 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4B9110ED.5000703@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:10:53 -0500 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] rmap: Fix Bugzilla Bug #5493 References: <20100305093834.GG17078@lisa.in-ulm.de> In-Reply-To: <20100305093834.GG17078@lisa.in-ulm.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Christian Ehrhardt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On 03/05/2010 04:38 AM, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > > Hi, > > this patch fixes bugzilla Bug > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5493 > > This bug describes a search complexity failure in rmap if a single > anon_vma has a huge number of vmas associated with it. > > The patch makes the vma prio tree code somewhat more reusable and then uses > that to replace the linked list of vmas in an anon_vma with a prio_tree. Your patch will not apply against a current -mm, because it conflicts with my anon_vma linking patches (which attacks another "rmap walks too many vmas" failure mode). Please rediff your patch against the latest -mm tree. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org