Re: Page fault scalability patch V18: Overview

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Sun Mar 06 2005 - 19:24:19 EST


On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Darren Williams wrote:

> Hi Christoph
>
> On Fri, 04 Mar 2005, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> > Make sure that scrubd_stop on startup is set to 2 and no zero in
> > mm/scrubd.c. The current patch on oss.sgi.com may have that set to zero.
> >
> unsigned int sysctl_scrub_stop = 2; /* Mininum order of page to zero */
>
> This is the assignment when page zero fails.

Could you just test this with the prezeroing patches alone?
Include a dmesg from a successful boot and then tell me what
you changed and where the boot failed. Which version of the patches did
you apply?

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