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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.10-pre11
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 05:58:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010918055823.S698@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010918053711.P698@athlon.random> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0109172314130.7032-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0109172314130.7032-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>; from marcelo@conectiva.com.br on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:25:09PM -0300

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:25:09PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> My point is: we're not going to start aging pte's until we have a
> zone shortage, right ?

correct, so we don't waste time if there's only filesystem cache
pressure during the whole kernel uptime (not an unlikely scenario if you
have enough ram like on servers).

> I really think this will cause problems in practice, Andrea.

yes, this hiding could infact explain the report you posted. I'll try to
reproduce with highmem emulation and to fix it as soon as I can
reproduce, also if you are interested to hack on it too feel free to
send patches of course. thanks.

Andrea

  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-18  3:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 110+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-18  0:08 Linux 2.4.10-pre11 Linus Torvalds
2001-09-17 23:17 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-18  1:08   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-18  3:37     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-18  2:25       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-18  3:58         ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-09-18  2:53           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-18  4:54             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-18  3:33               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-18  5:06                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-18  3:55                   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-18  5:32                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-18  4:14                       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-18  5:59                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-18  5:00                       ` Marcelo Tosatti
     [not found] ` <20010917211834.A31693@redhat.com>
     [not found]   ` <20010918035055.J698@athlon.random>
2001-09-18  2:02     ` Andrea Arcangeli
     [not found]     ` <20010917221653.B31693@redhat.com>
2001-09-18  2:27       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-18  3:14         ` Alan Cox
2001-09-18  3:26         ` Andrea Arcangeli
     [not found]       ` <20010918052201.N698@athlon.random>
2001-09-18  4:01         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-09-18  4:39           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-18  5:04             ` Alan Cox
2001-09-18  5:09               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-18  5:22             ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-09-18  5:48               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-18  5:48 ` Andrew Morton
2001-09-18  6:11   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-18  5:02     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-18  6:40       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-18 16:06         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-18 19:18           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-09-18 21:05             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-19 13:57               ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-18 10:58   ` Martin Dalecki
2001-09-18  9:31 ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-18  9:39   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-18  9:44     ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-18  9:57       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-18 10:02         ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-18 10:17           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-18 10:28             ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-18 10:35               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-18 10:52                 ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-18 11:05             ` Helge Hafting
2001-09-18 12:40               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-18 17:02             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-18 16:45   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-18 18:19     ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-18 18:27       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-18 19:14         ` Andreas Dilger
2001-09-18 19:41           ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-18 20:33             ` Richard Gooch
2001-09-18 20:53               ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-18 21:06                 ` Richard Gooch
2001-09-18 21:27                   ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-18 20:17           ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-09-18 20:33             ` Alan Cox
2001-09-19 13:42             ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-19 14:27               ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-19  2:59           ` Michael Peddemors
2001-09-18 19:29         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-09-19 16:11         ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-19 18:25           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-19 19:21             ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-19 20:41               ` Richard Gooch
2001-09-19 20:55               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-19 21:17                 ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-19 22:15                   ` Richard Gooch
2001-09-19 23:01                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-19 23:03                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-19 23:30                     ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-19 23:40                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-20 13:56                         ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-20 14:38                           ` Chris Mason
2001-09-20 14:50                             ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-20 15:44                               ` Chris Mason
2001-09-20 16:43                                 ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-20 20:54                                   ` [PATCH] fs/block_dev.c cleanup Alexander Viro
2001-09-20  2:34               ` Linux 2.4.10-pre11 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-20 10:52                 ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-20 18:18                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-20 18:33                     ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-20 18:59                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-20 20:41                         ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-20 21:18                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-20 21:40                             ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-20 22:13                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-20 22:20                                 ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-20 22:31                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-20 22:44                                     ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-20 23:03                                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-20 23:11                                         ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-21  1:50                                           ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-21  2:42                                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-21  3:47                                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-21  4:00                                           ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-21  4:06                                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-21  4:06                                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-21  4:46                                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-21  7:09                                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-19 13:38       ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-19 16:35       ` Andrea Arcangeli
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-09-18  3:18 Ed Tomlinson
2001-09-18  2:31 ` Magnus Naeslund(f)
2001-09-18  2:49   ` David B. Stevens
2001-09-18  3:38   ` Ed Tomlinson
2001-09-18  3:15 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-18  4:41   ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-09-18  6:14 Alexei Podtelezhnikov
2001-09-18 13:51 ` Rik van Riel

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