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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: "Dieter Nützel" <Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de>
Cc: charles-heselton@cox.net, Dan Mann <mainlylinux@attbi.com>,
	Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.5.6 Interactive performance
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 02:05:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020311020512.K8949@dualathlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NFBBKFIFGLNJKLMMGGFPOEPCCFAA.charles-heselton@cox.net> <200203100211.49572.Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200203100211.49572.Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de>

On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 02:11:49AM +0100, Dieter Nützel wrote:
> On Sonntag, 10. März 2002 02:00:02, Charles Heselton wrote:
> > How would you implement these thing?  I'm not on the same technical level
> > that you guys are, and when/if things are out of context, I don't follow.
> > Can you help?
> 
> If you are somewhat open for "new" (experimental) stuff I can prepare a patch 
> on top of 2.4.18 or 2.4.19-pre2 for you.
> 
> But Andrea Arcangeli informed me that vm-29 had a deadlock bug in the recent 
> fixes for the bh headers. vm-28 is fine or soon to be available vm-30.

Confirm. I only wanted to add that only 2.4.19pre2aa1 and vm-29 can
deadlock, all previous -aa kernels and vm-?? patches are rock solid
AFIK. The bug is just fixed, it was a missing UnlockPage. The bug was
introduced while fixing an highmem balancing thing (that nobody ever
reported on production machines so I don't consider such problem a
showstopper, but nevertheless vm-30 will fix both the new pratical and
the old mostly theorical problem).

Andrea

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-03-11  1:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-09 19:55 Kernel 2.5.6 Interactive performance Dieter Nützel
2002-03-10  1:00 ` Charles Heselton
2002-03-10  1:11   ` Dieter Nützel
2002-03-10  1:15     ` Charles Heselton
2002-03-10  4:23       ` Robert Love
2002-03-10  4:38         ` Mike Fedyk
2002-03-10  6:05           ` Robert Love
2002-03-10  6:18             ` Charles Heselton
2002-03-10  4:55         ` J Sloan
2002-03-11  1:05     ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
     [not found] <003301c1c7fd$a67d08f0$bb187143@amer.cisco.com>
2002-03-10  7:23 ` Charles Heselton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-08  0:14 2.5.6-3 -- preempt_schedule unresolved in snd-pcm.o, snd-emu10k1-synth.o and snd-emu10k1.o Miles Lane
2002-03-09 18:55 ` Kernel 2.5.6 Interactive performance Dan Mann

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