Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:53:06 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86_64: fix delayed signals |
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:31:26 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > Btw, did any of the impacted people test -rc9? Edwin's report is > > about -rc2 and -rc8, and one of the things we fixed since -rc8 is > > that incorrect and unintentional nr_zones zeroing that effectively > > disabled kswapd - and made everybody do synchronous memory freeing > > when they wanted to allocate more memory.. That can play havoc with > > any interactive stuff. > > Hmm. Edwin's latencytop output includes this (ignoring the _very_ top > entries that are all either CD-ROM media change tests or are > interruptible pipe/select things) at the top: > > 21 10264428 915514 get_request_wait __make_request > generic_make_request submit_bio xfs_submit_ioend_bio xfs_submit_ioend > xfs_page_state_convert xfs_vm_writepage __writepage > write_cache_pages generic_writepages xfs_vm_writepages
argh. well I guess this might be useful for this case, but normally latencytop gives you much more humanly readable data... maybe Edwin forgot to do "make install" :-(
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