Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 06:44:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 06:44:17 -0500 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:50969 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 06:44:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 12:34:37 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Andrew Morton Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Momchil Velikov , lkml Subject: Re: Copying to loop device hangs up everything Message-ID: <20011220123437.W1395@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <87bsgwi6zz.fsf@fadata.bg> <3C1FC254.525B9108@zip.com.au> <3C1FCB96.83E49ECB@zip.com.au> <3C204C4F.C989AD71@zip.com.au>, <3C204C4F.C989AD71@zip.com.au>; <20011219144213.A1395@athlon.random> <3C21963B.AD97D4@zip.com.au> <20011220122735.V1395@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <20011220122735.V1395@athlon.random>; from andrea@suse.de on Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 12:27:35PM +0100 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 12:27:35PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > the loop thread to use I/O methods to release memory should be just > enough to have a stable system performing well. Forget to tell, I'd really love to be proved wrong on this one on practice (if you have a patch that makes the system faster than rc2aa1 you will certainly change my mind in a jiffy), just catch rc2aa1 and see if the loop is performing well for you or not, it'm safisfied with it here. My main worry at the moment is the other deadlock report of yesterday (still waiting the SYSRQ+T to see what gone wrong for him :) Andrea - 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/