Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932243AbWCDWWQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Mar 2006 17:22:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932249AbWCDWWQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Mar 2006 17:22:16 -0500 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:15064 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932243AbWCDWWP (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Mar 2006 17:22:15 -0500 Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 14:22:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20060304.142202.32211471.davem@davemloft.net> To: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, fabbione@ubuntu.com Subject: Re: VFS nr_files accounting From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20060304141717.GA456@in.ibm.com> References: <20060304.022546.85833873.davem@davemloft.net> <20060304141717.GA456@in.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2.53 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1054 Lines: 22 From: Dipankar Sarma Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 19:47:17 +0530 > Dave, there is a set of patches in -mm that may handle this > better - > > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc5/2.6.16-rc5-mm2/broken-out/rcu-batch-tuning.patch > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc5/2.6.16-rc5-mm2/broken-out/fix-file-counting.patch > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc5/2.6.16-rc5-mm2/broken-out/fix-file-counting-fixes.patch > > Could you please try this in your setup ? > > The rcu-batch tuning patch provides automatic switching to > process as many RCUs as possible if too many of them are queued. > The file counting fixes count the file structures correctly. Thanks, I'll give these patches a spin. - 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/