From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, fabbione@ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: VFS nr_files accounting
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 14:22:02 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060304.142202.32211471.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060304141717.GA456@in.ibm.com>
From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 19:47:17 +0530
> Dave, there is a set of patches in -mm that may handle this
> better -
>
> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc5/2.6.16-rc5-mm2/broken-out/rcu-batch-tuning.patch
> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc5/2.6.16-rc5-mm2/broken-out/fix-file-counting.patch
> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc5/2.6.16-rc5-mm2/broken-out/fix-file-counting-fixes.patch
>
> Could you please try this in your setup ?
>
> The rcu-batch tuning patch provides automatic switching to
> process as many RCUs as possible if too many of them are queued.
> The file counting fixes count the file structures correctly.
Thanks, I'll give these patches a spin.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-04 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-04 10:25 VFS nr_files accounting David S. Miller
2006-03-04 14:17 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-03-04 22:22 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2006-03-04 22:28 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-04 22:32 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-05 7:05 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-03-05 7:37 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-05 11:38 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-03-06 20:39 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-07 6:41 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-03-07 6:47 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-07 8:02 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-03-07 6:53 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-07 7:00 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-07 8:09 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-03-07 8:55 ` Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
2006-03-07 7:06 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-07 12:09 ` Dipankar Sarma
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