Re: [PATCH] x86_64: fix delayed signals

Linus Torvalds
2008-07-11T18:11:17Z

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> But it would be really good to have the thing bisected regardless of what
> it is.

Btw, did any of the impacted people test -rc9? Edwin's report is about
-rc2 and -rc8, and one of the things we fixed since -rc8 is that incorrect
and unintentional nr_zones zeroing that effectively disabled kswapd - and
made everybody do synchronous memory freeing when they wanted to allocate
more memory.. That can play havoc with any interactive stuff.

Linus