From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, jmoyer@redhat.com,
carson@taltos.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@oss.sgi.com, davem@redhat.com
Subject: Re: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:98 -- compiling with distcc
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 02:15:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040430001521.GV29954@dualathlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040429162632.689fa7fe.akpm@osdl.org>
On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 04:26:32PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> The only application which we know will exercise that code is the distcc
> server. Making that little change while testing the patch will increase
> the chance of shaking out any problems.
if you're scared it has bugs I think it'd be more useful to change it to
"|| 1" and run it under some stress test, and then remove the "|| 1".
the aio code in unmap_kvec is also a big user of that. a schedule every
40M of ram freed isn't too nice to my eyes (but I doubt it can be
measured).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-30 0:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-23 22:33 kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:98 -- compiling with distcc Carson Gaspar
2004-04-28 2:02 ` Jeff Moyer
2004-04-29 21:09 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-04-29 21:28 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-29 22:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-29 23:26 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-30 0:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
[not found] <406D3E8F.20902@abbeynet.it>
2004-04-02 23:36 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-05 10:47 ` Marco Fais
2004-04-05 10:56 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-05 13:58 ` Marco Fais
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