From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 16:04:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 16:03:56 -0400 Received: from humbolt.nl.linux.org ([131.211.28.48]:7943 "EHLO humbolt.nl.linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 16:03:41 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Andrea Arcangeli , Jan Harkes Subject: Re: page_launder() on 2.4.9/10 issue Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 22:10:42 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Rik van Riel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010904131349.B29711@cs.cmu.edu> <20010904135427.A30503@cs.cmu.edu> <20010904215449.S699@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010904215449.S699@athlon.random> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <20010904200348Z16581-32383+3477@humbolt.nl.linux.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On September 4, 2001 09:54 pm, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:54:27PM -0400, Jan Harkes wrote: > > Now for the past _9_ stable kernel releases, page aging hasn't worked > > at all!! Nobody seems to even have bothered to check. I send in a patch > > All I can say is that I hope you will get your problem fixed with one of > the next -aa, I incidentally started working on it yesterday. So far > it's a one thousand diff very far from compiling, so it will grow > further, but it shouldn't take too long to finish the rewrite. Once > finished the benchmarks and the reproducible 2.4 deadlocks will tell me > if I'm right. Which reproducible deadlocks did you have in mind, and how do I reproduce them? -- Daniel