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From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
To: "Jean Delvare" <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, "Serge Belyshev" <belyshev@depni.sinp.msu.ru>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>,
	"Manfred Spraul" <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Subject: Re: VFS: file-max limit 50044 reached
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:16:09 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051017084609.GA6257@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <JTFDVq8K.1129537967.5390760.khali@localhost>

On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 10:32:47AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> 
> > In fact, in that path you could even do a full "rcu_process_callbacks()".
> > After all, this is not that different from signal handling.
> >
> > Gaah. I had really hoped to release 2.6.14 tomorrow. It's been a week
> > since -rc4.
> 
> Isn't reverting the original change an option? 2.6.13 was working OK if
> I'm not mistaken.

IMO, putting the file accounting in slab ctor/dtors is not very
reliable because it depends on slab not getting fragmented.
Batched freeing in RCU is just an extreme case of it. We needed
to fix file counting anyway.

Thanks
Dipankar

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-17  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-15 13:19 VFS: file-max limit 50044 reached Serge Belyshev
2005-10-15 17:53 ` Serge Belyshev
2005-10-16 16:23   ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-10-16 18:51     ` Serge Belyshev
2005-10-16 18:56       ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-10-17  2:19         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-17  4:43           ` Serge Belyshev
2005-10-17  8:32           ` Jean Delvare
2005-10-17  8:46             ` Dipankar Sarma [this message]
2005-10-17  9:10               ` Eric Dumazet
2005-10-17  9:14                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-10-17  9:25                   ` Eric Dumazet
2005-10-17 10:32                 ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-10-17 12:10                   ` [RCU problem] was " Eric Dumazet
2005-10-17 12:31                     ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-10-17 12:36                     ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-10-17 13:28                       ` Eric Dumazet
2005-10-17 13:33                         ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-10-17 14:54                         ` Eric Dumazet
2005-10-17 15:42                   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-17 16:01                     ` Eric Dumazet
2005-10-17 16:16                       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-17 16:29                         ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-10-17 18:01                           ` Eric Dumazet
2005-10-17 18:31                             ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-10-17 19:00                               ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-17 18:37                             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-17 19:12                               ` Eric Dumazet
2005-10-17 19:30                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-17 19:39                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2005-10-17 20:14                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-17 20:25                                       ` Christopher Friesen
2005-10-17 20:24                                         ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-10-18 15:55                                           ` Christopher Friesen
2005-10-17 20:38                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-17 20:33                                       ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-10-17 22:40                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-17 22:59                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-10-18  9:46                               ` Eric Dumazet
2005-10-18 16:22                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-10-17 18:15                           ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-10-17 18:40                           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-17 16:23                       ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-10-17 16:31                       ` Lee Revell
2005-10-17 16:20                     ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-10-17  2:34     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-17  3:54       ` Roland Dreier
2005-10-17 11:54       ` Dipankar Sarma

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