From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Zlatko Calusic <zlatko@iskon.hr>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Yet another bogus piece of do_try_to_free_pages()
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 04:07:29 -0200 (BRST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101170407120.2909-100000@freak.distro.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0101171755540.30841-100000@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 11 Jan 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
>
> > I have tested it for you and results are great. On some tests I got
> > 20% to 30% better results which is amazing. I'll do some more tests
> > but I would vote for this to get in immediately. Yes, it's *so* good.
>
> Don't be so rash.
>
> The patch hasn't been tested very thoroughly, otherwise
> people would have noticed the problem that PG_MEMALLOC
> isn't set around the page freeing code, possibly leading
> to deadlocks, triple faults and other nasties.
Look at 2.4.1pre8.
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2001-01-08 6:42 ` Subtle MM bug Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 13:11 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-08 16:42 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-08 17:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 13:57 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-08 17:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 18:10 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-08 21:52 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-09 0:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 23:49 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-09 3:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09 20:33 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-09 22:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09 21:33 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-09 22:11 ` Yet another bogus piece of do_try_to_free_pages() Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-10 0:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-10 6:39 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-10 22:19 ` Roger Larsson
2001-01-11 0:11 ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-17 6:58 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-17 6:07 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2001-01-17 19:04 ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-17 19:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-18 0:55 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-17 6:52 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-09 23:58 ` Subtle MM bug Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09 22:21 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-10 0:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-10 0:12 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-10 11:29 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-11 3:30 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-11 9:42 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-11 15:24 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-17 4:54 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-08 16:45 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-08 17:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 18:21 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-08 18:38 ` Linus Torvalds
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