From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264273AbTLBBif (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 20:38:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264278AbTLBBif (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 20:38:35 -0500 Received: from mtvcafw.sgi.com ([192.48.171.6]:41901 "EHLO zok.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264273AbTLBBid (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 20:38:33 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 12:37:16 +1100 From: Nathan Scott To: Linus Torvalds Cc: pinotj@club-internet.fr, manfred@colorfullife.com, Andrew Morton , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [Oops] i386 mm/slab.c (cache_flusharray) Message-ID: <20031202013716.GG621@frodo> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 04:36:33PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I assume it's not an option to try another filesystem on this setup, but > it's entirely possible that the 2.6.x buffer-head removal has impacted XFS > negatively - although I'm a bit surprised at how easily you seem to show > problems, since XFS actually has active maintenance. > > Nathan - I don't know if you follow linux-kernel, but Jerome Pinot has Yep, although I try to filter out "noise" and have inadvertently missed this discussion so far. > been having bad slab problems for some time now. Do normal XFS users > compile with slab debugging turned on? Hmm - I know I do - my nightly QA testing runs with this set. Let me dig through the archives and catch up a bit on this issue; I'll get back to you. thanks. -- Nathan