Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754685AbYADQeQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 11:34:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752865AbYADQeE (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 11:34:04 -0500 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:41189 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752804AbYADQeC (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 11:34:02 -0500 To: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: Rik van Riel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Eric Whitney , Nick Dokos Subject: Re: [patch 00/19] VM pageout scalability improvements From: Andi Kleen References: <20080102224144.885671949@redhat.com> <1199379128.5295.21.camel@localhost> <20080103120000.1768f220@cuia.boston.redhat.com> <1199380412.5295.29.camel@localhost> <20080103170035.105d22c8@cuia.boston.redhat.com> <1199463934.5290.20.camel@localhost> Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:34:00 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1199463934.5290.20.camel@localhost> (Lee Schermerhorn's message of "Fri\, 04 Jan 2008 11\:25\:34 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 456 Lines: 12 Lee Schermerhorn writes: > We can easily [he says, glibly] reproduce the hang on the anon_vma lock Is that a NUMA platform? On non x86? Perhaps you just need queued spinlocks? -Andi -- 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/