From: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>,
"M. Edward Borasky" <znmeb@aracnet.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Have the 2.4 kernel memory management problems on large machines been fixed?
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 17:46:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020522174614.B2819@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E17AXWu-0001vL-00@the-village.bc.nu> <1404136612.1022057787@[10.10.2.3]>
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:56:28AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > 7.3 has some of what is needed but not all.
>
> Can you outline the changes in this area? I want to make sure we're
> not all fighting the same problems seperately ;-) I know bounce
> buffers is one large element of that, though I believe you still
> only go up to 4Gb, unless I'm mistaken?
Yes, it only goes up to 4Gb. It's because of the error handling code in
the SCSI mid-layer and above, it fails to properly handle the >4gb sg
entries on error conditions. I'm working on that now and should have it
fixed soon.
--
Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> 919-754-3700 x44233
Red Hat, Inc.
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Raleigh, NC 27606
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-22 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-22 6:51 2.4.19pre*: IO statistics in /proc/partitions corrupt Jochen Suckfuell
2002-05-22 14:00 ` Have the 2.4 kernel memory management problems on large machines been fixed? M. Edward Borasky
2002-05-22 14:08 ` bert hubert
2002-05-22 14:55 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-22 15:56 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-22 16:23 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-22 21:46 ` Doug Ledford [this message]
2002-05-22 14:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-22 15:44 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-22 15:53 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-22 16:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-22 16:36 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-22 17:21 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-22 18:18 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-22 18:02 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-22 18:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-22 18:30 ` Rik van Riel
2002-05-22 18:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-22 18:48 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-22 18:34 ` Have the 2.4 kernel memory management problems on large machines Alan Cox
2002-05-22 18:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-22 20:30 ` Have the 2.4 kernel memory management problems on large machines been fixed? William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-22 21:18 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-22 21:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-22 22:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-22 22:44 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-28 2:08 ` Wim Coekaerts
2002-05-31 20:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-23 14:16 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-05-23 17:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-23 19:34 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-05-23 19:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-22 18:38 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-22 17:50 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-22 17:54 ` J Sloan
2002-05-22 18:22 ` Have the 2.4 kernel memory management problems on large machines Alan Cox
2002-05-22 22:14 ` J Sloan
2002-05-22 18:24 ` Have the 2.4 kernel memory management problems on large machines been fixed? Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-22 22:05 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-22 14:29 Alastair Stevens
[not found] <E17AaR0-0002QM-00@the-village.bc.nu.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0205221048570.23621-100000@penguin.transmeta.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-05-22 20:23 ` Andi Kleen
2002-05-22 20:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-23 12:40 ` Mike Jagdis
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