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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: downgrade_write replacement in remap_file_pages
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 18:05:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20586.1086714308@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040608154438.GK18083@dualathlon.random>


> Apparently downgrade_write deadlocks the kernel in the mmap_sem
> under load.

Which implementation of rwsems is your kernel using? The spinlock-based one or
the XADD based one? Have you tried the other version?

Have you more than 32767 processes?

Do you have any stack traces?

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-06-08 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-08 15:44 downgrade_write replacement in remap_file_pages Andrea Arcangeli
2004-06-08 16:31 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-08 16:39   ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-08 19:04   ` David Howells
2004-06-08 17:05 ` David Howells [this message]
2004-06-08 22:33   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-06-08 19:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-08 22:52   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-06-09 12:19   ` [PATCH] A generic_file_sendpage() Alexander Nyberg
2004-06-10 19:49     ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-25 19:19     ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-25 19:46       ` viro
2004-06-25 20:03         ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-26  0:53           ` Trond Myklebust
2004-06-28 11:41             ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-25 20:05       ` Andreas Dilger
2004-06-25 20:09         ` Jörn Engel

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