From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Andrea Gelmini <gelma@gelma.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VM: Fix nasty and subtle race in shared mmap'ed page writeback
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:11:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1170079877.6189.160.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070129140844.GE8271@gelma.net>
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 15:08 +0100, Andrea Gelmini wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:10:39AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 01:39 +0100, Andrea Gelmini wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I can't do the test 'till next week.
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot for your time,
> > > Gelma
> >
> > Have you ever gotten around to testing this?
>
> well, I spent some time doing more deeply test.
> DB corruption happens anyway, even with the kernel that seems to work
> (I say seems because it needs much more effort to get corruption).
> I'm trying to understand it.
> I will work more over it next week.
>
> thank a lot for your time,
Sure, no problem.
Just a question to clarify matters, which kernels are you testing?
That is, you say corruption is now harder to trigger, is that with
the .20-rc kernels (or .19.2). Or are we talking about .18 + my patch?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-29 14:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200612291859.kBTIx2kq031961@hera.kernel.org>
2006-12-29 22:43 ` VM: Fix nasty and subtle race in shared mmap'ed page writeback Andrea Gelmini
2006-12-31 3:55 ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-31 13:50 ` Andrea Gelmini
2007-01-04 3:57 ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-04 4:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-04 5:07 ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-04 13:17 ` Andrea Gelmini
2007-01-04 5:41 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-04 6:03 ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-04 6:12 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-04 6:56 ` David Miller
2007-01-04 7:06 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-04 7:16 ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-04 13:25 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-01-08 7:46 ` dean gaudet
2007-01-04 13:08 ` Andrea Gelmini
2007-01-04 13:16 ` Andrea Gelmini
2007-01-05 5:36 ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-10 13:54 ` Andrea Gelmini
[not found] ` <1168507298.26496.18.camel@twins>
[not found] ` <20070112003955.GH4553@gelma.net>
[not found] ` <1169457039.2639.17.camel@taijtu>
2007-01-29 14:08 ` Andrea Gelmini
2007-01-29 14:11 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2007-01-29 15:12 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-01-05 19:12 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-05 19:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-05 20:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-05 21:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-04 13:19 ` Andrea Gelmini
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