Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261602AbVCGAS4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Mar 2005 19:18:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261556AbVCGARW (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Mar 2005 19:17:22 -0500 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:1426 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261602AbVCFX7w (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Mar 2005 18:59:52 -0500 Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 15:59:41 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Darren Williams cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Page fault scalability patch V18: Overview In-Reply-To: <20050306214902.GC19053@cse.unsw.EDU.AU> Message-ID: References: <20050304021847.GF28102@cse.unsw.EDU.AU> <20050304024704.GG28102@cse.unsw.EDU.AU> <20050306214902.GC19053@cse.unsw.EDU.AU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 838 Lines: 23 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? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/