From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Robert_Hentosh@Dell.com,
Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][1/2] adjust dirty threshold for lowmem-only mappings
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 11:07:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041225190710.GZ771@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0412251253090.18130@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com>
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>> the first place? If that happens it means you're under a lowmem
>> shortage, something you apparently ruled out when you said
>> lowmem_reserve couldn't help your workload.
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 12:59:10PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Let me explain a 3rd time:
[...]
> If you have any more questions as to why the bug happens, don't
> hesitate to ask and I'll explain you why this problem happens.
This is an old and well-known problem.
Lifting the artificial lowmem restrictions on blockdev mappings
(thereby nuking mapping->gfp_mask altogether) would resolve a number of
problems, not that anything making that much sense could ever happen.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-25 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-20 15:15 [PATCH][1/2] adjust dirty threshold for lowmem-only mappings Rik van Riel
2004-12-20 15:23 ` Rik van Riel
2004-12-20 20:54 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-20 21:27 ` Rik van Riel
2004-12-23 19:21 ` Rik van Riel
2004-12-24 16:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-24 16:22 ` Rik van Riel
2004-12-24 16:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-24 22:12 ` Rik van Riel
2004-12-25 2:07 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-25 17:59 ` Rik van Riel
2004-12-25 18:36 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-25 19:07 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-12-25 20:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-26 3:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-02 16:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-02 16:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-02 16:53 ` Rik van Riel
2005-01-02 17:21 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-25 22:03 ` Nikita Danilov
2004-12-26 3:16 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-02 15:11 ` Jens Axboe
2005-01-02 16:18 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-02 20:03 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-02 20:25 ` William Lee Irwin III
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-12-20 16:46 Robert_Hentosh
2004-12-20 17:56 ` Sami Farin
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