Re: page_launder() on 2.4.9/10 issue

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Thu, 6 Sep 2001 08:18:40 -0300 (BRST)

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:54:27PM -0400, Jan Harkes wrote:
> > Now for the past _9_ stable kernel releases, page aging hasn't worked
> > at all!! Nobody seems to even have bothered to check. I send in a patch
>
> All I can say is that I hope you will get your problem fixed with one
> of the next -aa, I incidentally started working on it yesterday.

You too? ;)

> So far it's a one thousand diff very far from compiling, so it will
> grow further, but it shouldn't take too long to finish the rewrite.
> Once finished the benchmarks and the reproducible 2.4 deadlocks will
> tell me if I'm right.

Of course, we could try to work together on this one, since
we both seem to be starved for time ...

cheers,

Rik

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