Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753922Ab2HTLLF (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2012 07:11:05 -0400 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:41362 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752848Ab2HTLLD (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2012 07:11:03 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.77,796,1336374000"; d="scan'208";a="206337044" From: Andi Kleen To: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Hugh Dickins , Rik van Riel , Daniel Forrest , Andrea Arcangeli , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: Repeated fork() causes SLAB to grow without bound References: <20120816024610.GA5350@evergreen.ssec.wisc.edu> <502D42E5.7090403@redhat.com> <20120818000312.GA4262@evergreen.ssec.wisc.edu> <502F100A.1080401@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 04:11:00 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Michel Lespinasse's message of "Mon, 20 Aug 2012 02:39:26 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (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: 539 Lines: 16 Michel Lespinasse writes: > > I would still prefer if we could just remove the anon_vma_chain stuff, though. Would probably help with the fork locking problems too. We never really recovered from that regression. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only -- 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/