From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: 2.5.33-mm5 From: Steven Cole In-Reply-To: <3D7AF270.BE4AFBEB@digeo.com> References: <3D7AF270.BE4AFBEB@digeo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 09 Sep 2002 08:25:42 -0600 Message-Id: <1031581542.1984.230.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: lkml , "linux-mm@kvack.org" List-ID: On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 00:47, Andrew Morton wrote: > > URL: http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.33/2.5.33-mm5/ > > +refill-rate-fix.patch > > Fix a problem in refill_inactive_zone() which could soak a lot of CPU. > > +sleeping-release_page.patch > > Allow mapped->releasepage() to sleep again. My passing in non-zero > gfp_mask. > > +filemap-integration-fixes.patch > > Some fixes to the readv/writev rework. > > Plus a lot of stabilisation, tuning and testing of the new VM latency > control code. Including fixing one rarely-occurring infinite loop > which might explain Steve Cole's reported failure. This looks pretty good so far. The test box has run up to 112 dbench clients successfully with 2.5.33-mm5, ext3 data=ordered, which is much better than before. Thanks. ...and there was much rejoicing. Steven -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/