Re: more testing on 2.4.0-t9p[456] VM deadlocks

2000-09-27 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote: > On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > well, the __GFP_IO part is included (in a different way). The slab.c part > > > is not included. > > > > Actually the __GFP_IO check is now only inside ext2. > > no, it isnt. It's in the VFS. In fac

Re: more testing on 2.4.0-t9p[456] VM deadlocks

2000-09-27 Thread Martin Diehl
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Test of 2.4.0-t9p6 + vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 + vmfixes-B2-deadlock.patch > > note that this is effectively test9-pre7 (with a couple of more fixes and > the new multiqueue stuff), so you might want to test that as well. Hi, have tried the same test

Re: more testing on 2.4.0-t9p[456] VM deadlocks

2000-09-27 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > well, the __GFP_IO part is included (in a different way). The slab.c part > > is not included. > > Actually the __GFP_IO check is now only inside ext2. no, it isnt. It's in the VFS. In fact the __GFP_IO check has not changed semantically, it jus

Re: more testing on 2.4.0-t9p[456] VM deadlocks

2000-09-26 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote: > On 26 Sep 2000, Juan J. Quintela wrote: > > > Ingo, I am very wrong, or vmfixes-B2_deadlock is not included in > > test9-pre7. > > well, the __GFP_IO part is included (in a different way). The slab.c part > is not included. Actually the __

Re: more testing on 2.4.0-t9p[456] VM deadlocks

2000-09-26 Thread Ingo Molnar
On 26 Sep 2000, Juan J. Quintela wrote: > Ingo, I am very wrong, or vmfixes-B2_deadlock is not included in > test9-pre7. well, the __GFP_IO part is included (in a different way). The slab.c part is not included. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubsc

Re: more testing on 2.4.0-t9p[456] VM deadlocks

2000-09-26 Thread Juan J. Quintela
> "ingo" == Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi >> Thank You! Seems to be much better now: >> >> Test of 2.4.0-t9p6 + vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 + vmfixes-B2-deadlock.patch ingo> note that this is effectively test8-pre7 (with a couple of more fixes and ingo> the new multiqueue stuff), s

Re: more testing on 2.4.0-t9p[456] VM deadlocks

2000-09-26 Thread Ingo Molnar
> note that this is effectively test8-pre7 (with a couple of more fixes and ^-9 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: more testing on 2.4.0-t9p[456] VM deadlocks

2000-09-26 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Martin Diehl wrote: > Thank You! Seems to be much better now: > > Test of 2.4.0-t9p6 + vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 + vmfixes-B2-deadlock.patch note that this is effectively test8-pre7 (with a couple of more fixes and the new multiqueue stuff), so you might want to test that as

Re: more testing on 2.4.0-t9p[456] VM deadlocks

2000-09-26 Thread Martin Diehl
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > There is a known deadlock with Ingo's patch. > > I'm attaching a patch which should fix it. (on top of > vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2) Hi, Thank You! Seems to be much better now: Test of 2.4.0-t9p6 + vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 + vmfixes-B2-deadlock.patch

Re: more testing on 2.4.0-t9p[456] VM deadlocks

2000-09-25 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Martin Diehl wrote: > > > On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Martin Diehl wrote: > > > PS: vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 not yet tested - will do later. > > Hi - done now: > > using 2.4.0-t9p6 + vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 I ended up with the box > deadlocked again! Was "make bzImage" on UP boot

Re: more testing on 2.4.0-t9p[456] VM deadlocks

2000-09-25 Thread Martin Diehl
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Martin Diehl wrote: > PS: vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 not yet tested - will do later. Hi - done now: using 2.4.0-t9p6 + vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 I ended up with the box deadlocked again! Was "make bzImage" on UP booted with mem=8M. After about 4 hours at load 2-3 and almost cont

more testing on 2.4.0-t9p[456] VM deadlocks

2000-09-24 Thread Martin Diehl
Hi, want to summarize my observations wrt the VM-deadlock issue. Everything tested on UP box bootet with mem=8M and 500M swap. 2.4.0-t9p4 (vanilla) deadlocks almost everywhere (even in initscripts!), simple dd with large enough bs deadlock's as soon as page_out should start - i.e. no