From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 18:55:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 18:55:43 -0400 Received: from jalon.able.es ([212.97.163.2]:40645 "EHLO jalon.able.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 18:55:32 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 00:55:52 +0200 From: "J . A . Magallon" To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Robert Macaulay , Rik van Riel , Craig Kulesa , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bob Matthews , Marcelo Tosatti , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: highmem deadlock fix [was Re: VM in 2.4.10(+tweaks) vs. 2.4.9-ac14/15(+stuff)] Message-ID: <20010928005552.A16519@werewolf.able.es> In-Reply-To: <20010926164935.J27945@athlon.random> <20010926203651.Q27945@athlon.random> <20010928001321.L14277@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT In-Reply-To: <20010928001321.L14277@athlon.random>; from andrea@suse.de on Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 00:13:21 +0200 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.2.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 20010928 Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > >So the fix is either: > >1) to drop the NOHIGHIO logic like my test patch did >2) or to keep track of what buffers we must not wait while releasing > ram > This+tweaks-2+softirq already are worth a 11-pre1, aren't ? -- J.A. Magallon # Let the source be with you... mailto:jamagallon@able.es Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586 Linux werewolf 2.4.10-bw #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 00:32:53 CEST 2001 i686