Re: 2.5.33-mm5

From: Steven Cole (elenstev@mesatop.com)
Date: Mon Sep 09 2002 - 09:25:42 EST


On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 00:47, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> URL: http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.33/2.5.33-mm5/
>
> +refill-rate-fix.patch
>
> Fix a problem in refill_inactive_zone() which could soak a lot of CPU.
>
> +sleeping-release_page.patch
>
> Allow mapped->releasepage() to sleep again. My passing in non-zero
> gfp_mask.
>
> +filemap-integration-fixes.patch
>
> Some fixes to the readv/writev rework.
>
> Plus a lot of stabilisation, tuning and testing of the new VM latency
> control code. Including fixing one rarely-occurring infinite loop
> which might explain Steve Cole's reported failure.

This looks pretty good so far. The test box has run up to 112 dbench
clients successfully with 2.5.33-mm5, ext3 data=ordered, which is much
better than before. Thanks.
 
...and there was much rejoicing.

Steven

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