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From: "Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>,
	dipankar@in.ibm.com, Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.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 14:25:17 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <435408AD.4060505@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510171304580.3369@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Yes, it may screw up some latency stuff, but quite frankly, even with your 
> patch and even ignoring the call_rcu_bh case, I'm convinced you can easily 
> get into the situation where softirqd just doesn't run soon enough.
> 
> But at least I think I understand _why_ rcu processing was delayed.

Could this be related to the "rename14 LTP test with /tmp as tmpfs and 
HIGHMEM causes OOM-killer invocation due to zone normal exhaustion" issue?

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-17 20:26 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
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 [this message]
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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