Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 May 2004 21:52:50 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: 1352 NUL bytes at the end of a page? (was Re: Assertion `s && s->tree' failed: The saga continues.) |
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On Sat, 15 May 2004, Steven Cole wrote: > > OK, will do. I ran the bk exerciser script for over an hour with 2.6.6-current > and no CONFIG_PREEMPT and no errors. The script only reported one > iteration finished, while I got it to do 36 iterations over several hours earlier > today (with a 2.6.3-4mdk vendor kernel)
Hmm.. Th ecurrent BK tree contains much of the anonvma stuff, so this might actually be a serious VM performance regression. That could effectively be hiding whatever problem you saw.
Andrea: have you tested under low memory and high fs load? Steven has 384M or RAM, which _will_ cause a lot of VM activity when doing a full kernel BK clone + undo + pull, which is what his test script ends up doing...
It would be good to test going back to the kernel that saw the "immediate problem", and try that version without CONFIG_PREEMPT.
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