Re: [PATCH] blindingly stupid 2.2 VM bug

2000-11-30 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:35:32PM -0800, John Kennedy wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 01:04:16AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:36:15PM -0800, John Kennedy wrote: > > > No, it is all ext3fs stuff that is touching the same areas your > > > > Ok this now make

Re: [PATCH] blindingly stupid 2.2 VM bug

2000-11-28 Thread John Kennedy
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 01:04:16AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:36:15PM -0800, John Kennedy wrote: > > No, it is all ext3fs stuff that is touching the same areas your > > Ok this now makes sense. I ported VM-global-7 on top of ext3 right now > but it's untested:

Re: [PATCH] blindingly stupid 2.2 VM bug

2000-11-28 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:36:15PM -0800, John Kennedy wrote: > No, it is all ext3fs stuff that is touching the same areas your Ok this now makes sense. I ported VM-global-7 on top of ext3 right now but it's untested: ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.2

Re: [PATCH] blindingly stupid 2.2 VM bug

2000-11-28 Thread John Kennedy
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:20:09AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:02:35PM -0800, John Kennedy wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 02:57:01PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > ... VM-global-*-7 has no known bugs AFIK. > > > > Is there anything more recent than VM-g

Re: [PATCH] blindingly stupid 2.2 VM bug

2000-11-28 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:02:35PM -0800, John Kennedy wrote: > On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 02:57:01PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > ... VM-global-*-7 has no known bugs AFIK. > > Is there anything more recent than VM-global-2.2.18pre18-7? It isn't > patching very cleanly against my pre-patch-

Re: [PATCH] blindingly stupid 2.2 VM bug

2000-11-28 Thread John Kennedy
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 02:57:01PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > ... VM-global-*-7 has no known bugs AFIK. Is there anything more recent than VM-global-2.2.18pre18-7? It isn't patching very cleanly against my pre-patch-2.2.18-23 tree. (I don't see anything under your pre19 thru pre23 di

Re: [PATCH] blindingly stupid 2.2 VM bug

2000-11-25 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > VM-global-*-7 has no known bugs AFIK. Sure, I don't use 2.2 anyway ;) Rik -- Hollywood goes for world dumbination, Trailer at 11. http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the li

Re: [PATCH] blindingly stupid 2.2 VM bug

2000-11-25 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
+ /* Only lower priority if we didn't make progress. */ + if (count == loopcount) + --priority; + loopcount = count; If the while loops around the page-recycling-methods were missing we would have just noticed as soon as we needed to

Re: [PATCH] blindingly stupid 2.2 VM bug

2000-11-24 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to Rik van Riel: > Luckily my patch fixes some of the suspect areas in > VM-global [...] Would you say that the below patch is just the try_to_free_pages bug fix, then? Index: mm/vmscan.c --- mm/vmscan.c.prev +++ mm/vmscan.c Fri Nov 24 15:17:59 2000 @@ -401,4 +401,5 @@ int try_to_free_

Re: [PATCH] blindingly stupid 2.2 VM bug

2000-11-20 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Ville Herva wrote: > My questions is: I saw Andrea's VM-global patch being > recommended as a solution for this problem, and I already > compiled it in (although I haven't booted into it yet). Should I > use Rik's or Andrea's patch? This patch is incremental with VM-global,

Re: [PATCH] blindingly stupid 2.2 VM bug

2000-11-18 Thread Ville Herva
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 10:04:02PM -0200, you [Rik van Riel] said: > Hi Alan, > > here's a fix for a blindingly stupid bug that's been in > 2.2 for ages (and which I've warned you about a few times > in the last 6 months, and which I've even sent some patches > for). > > This patch should make 2

[PATCH] blindingly stupid 2.2 VM bug

2000-11-18 Thread Rik van Riel
Hi Alan, here's a fix for a blindingly stupid bug that's been in 2.2 for ages (and which I've warned you about a few times in the last 6 months, and which I've even sent some patches for). This patch should make 2.2 VM a bit more stable and should also fix the complaints from people who's system