Re: Removal of PG_marker scheme from 2.4.6-pre

2001-07-03 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > In pre7: > > > > "me: undo page_launder() LRU changes, they have nasty side effects" > > > > Can you be more verbose about this ? > > I think this was fixed by the GFP_BUFFER vs. GFP_CAN_FS + GFP_CAN_I

Re: Removal of PG_marker scheme from 2.4.6-pre

2001-07-01 Thread Linus Torvalds
Correction: I said -ac13 was bad, but ac13 was actually ok. It was ac14 that was the problem spot. Also note how Alan happened to merge the MM patches in the reverse order from the preX series: in the -ac series, Rik's page_launder() patch is in -ac14, while my VM changes are merged in -ac15. In

Re: Removal of PG_marker scheme from 2.4.6-pre

2001-07-01 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > "me: undo page_launder() LRU changes, they have nasty side effects" > > > > > > Can you be more verbose about this ? > > > > I think this was fixed by the GFP_BUFFER vs. GFP_CAN_FS + GFP_CAN_IO > > thing and

Re: Removal of PG_marker scheme from 2.4.6-pre

2001-07-01 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > "me: undo page_launder() LRU changes, they have nasty side effects" > > > > Can you be more verbose about this ? > > I think this was fixed by the GFP_BUFFER vs. GFP_CAN_FS + GFP_CAN_IO > thing and Linus accidentally backed out the wrong code ;) You wi

Re: Removal of PG_marker scheme from 2.4.6-pre

2001-07-01 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > In pre7: > > "me: undo page_launder() LRU changes, they have nasty side effects" > > Can you be more verbose about this ? I think this was fixed by the GFP_BUFFER vs. GFP_CAN_FS + GFP_CAN_IO thing and Linus accidentally backed out the wrong code ;)

Re: Removal of PG_marker scheme from 2.4.6-pre

2001-06-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > In pre7: > > "me: undo page_launder() LRU changes, they have nasty side effects" > > Can you be more verbose about this ? See the thread about 2.4.5-ac13+ (and my pre3+) basically becoming unusable for longish times (temporarily locking up) on linu

Removal of PG_marker scheme from 2.4.6-pre

2001-06-30 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Linus, In pre7: "me: undo page_launder() LRU changes, they have nasty side effects" Can you be more verbose about this ? Thanks - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kern