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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lowmem_reserve (replaces protection)
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 02:56:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041027005637.GP14325@dualathlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041027005425.GO14325@dualathlon.random>

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 02:54:25AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> I agree. I didn't introduce that bug, the very same problem would happen

btw, the severity of such performance bug in the LRU screwup, is minor
compared to the severity of the functional deadlocks or early oom kills
potentially generated by the lack of lowmem_reserve enabled with proper
defaults but sure we need to fix the performance LRU issue too.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-27  0:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-25 17:01 lowmem_reserve (replaces protection) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-26  1:48 ` Rik van Riel
2004-10-26  1:58   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-26  3:48     ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-26  4:04       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-26  4:17         ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-27  0:25           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27  0:42             ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-27  0:48               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27  2:06             ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-28  0:26             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27  0:31           ` Rik van Riel
2004-10-27  0:54             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27  0:56               ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2004-10-27  1:35                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27  2:08                   ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-27  2:31                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27  2:56                   ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-27  1:00               ` Rik van Riel
2004-10-27  1:10                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27  2:05               ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-27  2:29                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27  3:01                   ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-27  3:23                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27  3:34                       ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-27  3:43                         ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-27  4:44                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27  4:51                             ` Rik van Riel
2004-10-27  5:05                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27  5:50                                 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-27  5:33                             ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-27  6:11                               ` Andrea Arcangeli

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