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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: npiggin@suse.de, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc3-mm2: rcu radix tree patches break page migration
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:45:44 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44D82508.9020409@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608072041010.24071@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

Christoph Lameter wrote:

>On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>
>>Question: can you replace the lookup_slot with a regular lookup, then
>>replace the pointer switch with a radix_tree_delete + radix_tree_insert
>>and see if that works?
>>
>
>Ahh... Okay that makes things work the right way.
>
>Does that mean we need to get rid of radix tree replaces in 
>general?
>

I think it just means that my lookup_slot has a bug somewhere. Also: good
to know that I'm not corrupting anyones pagecache (except yours, and Lee's).

Let me work out what I'm doing wrong. In the meantime if you could send
that patch to akpm as a fixup, that would keep you running. Thanks guys.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-08  5:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-07 23:10 Christoph Lameter
2006-08-08  1:24 ` Nick Piggin
2006-08-08  3:42   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-08  5:45     ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-08-08 14:53       ` Lee Schermerhorn
2006-08-08 16:19       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-08 17:25         ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-08 17:52           ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-09  1:39           ` Nick Piggin

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