On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> There is a known deadlock with Ingo's patch.
>
> I'm attaching a patch which should fix it. (on top of
> vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2)
Hi,
Thank You! Seems to be much better now:
Test of 2.4.0-t9p6 + vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 + vmfixes-B2-deadlock.patch
did not reveal any deadlock or other VM-related problem during 10h
test (UP, mem=8M, make bzImage and friends).
Compared to my previous tests there was even more stress this time:
- cron.daily started to logrotate/tmpwatch/slocate... This caused
a jump of the av. compilation time for a single kernel .c-file from
about 1 min to 30 min or more.
- while the box was paging almost all the time I was able to switch
swap from raw swap-partition to swapfile on ext2-fs and back without
problem or fs-related locking issue.
Shm/DMA related stuff not tested so far.
Haven't tried to compare the performance under this next-to-OOM situation
to the old VM.
Taken together, the problems I've seen when testing the new VM on UP box
under low memory/high pressure conditions are apparently solved now.
Well done!
Regards
Martin
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