From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 26 May 2001 19:26:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 26 May 2001 19:24:22 -0400 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([209.10.41.242]:20647 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 26 May 2001 18:58:53 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 17:03:06 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Rik van Riel Cc: Ben LaHaise , Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux-2.4.5 Message-ID: <20010526170306.X9634@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010526163233.U9634@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Sat, May 26, 2001 at 11:36:22AM -0300 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 11:36:22AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sat, 26 May 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > No Comment(tm) *grin* > > > > I'm having lots of fun, thanks. > > Now _this_ is tweaking magic limits ;) Others agreed that the real source of the create_buffers could be just too few reserved pages in the unused_list, the unused_list is the only "deadlock avoidance logic" designed to avoid create_buffers to deadlock, so I really don't see why you don't listen to me and you just assume my idea is obviously wrong while it obviously isn't. The only thing I can do is to laugh while reading your illogical "No Comment(tm) *grin*", if I would take such comment serously I would just ignore the VM and stay in other subsystem where those funny things never happens as far I can tell, which I'm not going to do just because of your new funny "No Comment(tm) *grin*". If for any reason you notice I somehow invite those things to happen please let me know and I will certainly try to get better from my part. Andrea