Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 18:14:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 18:14:50 -0400 Received: from tomts10.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.54]:397 "EHLO tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 18:14:49 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Ed Tomlinson Organization: me To: Steven Cole , Craig Kulesa Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] move slab pages to the lru, for 2.5.27 Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 18:17:50 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Steven Cole , William Lee Irwin III References: <1027364068.12588.26.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: <1027364068.12588.26.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200207221817.50128.tomlins@cam.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1176 Lines: 28 On July 22, 2002 02:54 pm, Steven Cole wrote: > On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 05:24, Craig Kulesa wrote: > > This is an update for the 2.5 port of Ed Tomlinson's patch to move slab > > pages onto the lru for page aging, atop 2.5.27 and the full rmap patch. > > It is aimed at being a fairer, self-tuning way to target and evict slab > > pages. > > > > Previous description: > > http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-mm/2002-07/msg00216.html > > Patch URL: > > http://loke.as.arizona.edu/~ckulesa/kernel/rmap-vm/2.5.27/ > > While trying to boot 2.5.27-rmap-slablru, I got this early in the boot: > > Kernel panic: Failed to create pte-chain mempool! > In idle task - not syncing This is not the result of slablru (rmap yes), rather it looks to be what Andrew Morton was worried about in the "Re: pte_chain_mempool-2.5.27-1" thread. Looks like the chunk of continous memory need for the pte_change_mempool cannot be obtained... Ed Tomlinson - 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/