From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "M. Edward Borasky" Subject: RE: [PATCH] add vmalloc stats to meminfo Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 10:44:12 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20020915172608.GJ3530@holomorphy.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: Andrew Morton , Dave Hansen , "Martin J. Bligh" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: I'd still like a backport to the (Red Hat 7.3) 2.4.18 kernel if it is possible. I'm a big fan of statistics and logging them. M. Edward (Ed) Borasky mailto: znmeb@borasky-research.net http://www.pdxneurosemantics.com http://www.meta-trading-coach.com http://www.borasky-research.net Coaching: It's Not Just for Athletes and Executives Any More! -----Original Message----- From: William Lee Irwin III [mailto:wli@holomorphy.com] Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2002 10:26 AM To: M. Edward (Ed) Borasky Cc: Andrew Morton; Dave Hansen; Martin J. Bligh; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] add vmalloc stats to meminfo On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Also, dynamic vmalloc allocations may very well be starved by boot-time >> allocations on systems where much vmallocspace is required for IO memory. >> The failure mode of such is effectively deadlock, since they block >> indefinitely waiting for permanent boot-time allocations to be freed up. On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 10:23:24AM -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Thank you!! How difficult would it be to back-port this to 2.4.18? Note the follow-up to this saying that the above paragraph was incorrect. It doesn't sleep except to allocate backing memmory. Bill -- 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/