Re: page_launder() on 2.4.9/10 issue

From: Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Tue Sep 04 2001 - 13:36:02 EST


On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, 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.

Andrea,

Could you please describe how you're trying to fix the "anon pages not
being added to the active list at do_no_page()" problem Jan described ?

Thanks!

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