Re: [Oops] i386 mm/slab.c (cache_flusharray)

From: Nathan Scott
Date: Mon Dec 01 2003 - 20:39:43 EST


On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 04:36:33PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> I assume it's not an option to try another filesystem on this setup, but
> it's entirely possible that the 2.6.x buffer-head removal has impacted XFS
> negatively - although I'm a bit surprised at how easily you seem to show
> problems, since XFS actually has active maintenance.
>
> Nathan - I don't know if you follow linux-kernel, but Jerome Pinot has

Yep, although I try to filter out "noise" and have inadvertently
missed this discussion so far.

> been having bad slab problems for some time now. Do normal XFS users
> compile with slab debugging turned on?

Hmm - I know I do - my nightly QA testing runs with this set.
Let me dig through the archives and catch up a bit on this issue;
I'll get back to you.

thanks.

--
Nathan
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