Re: [patch] highmem-2.4.2-A0

2001-02-26 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:44:16PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > -ac4. Differences: no need to complicate highmem.c with pool-fillup on > bootup. It will get refilled after the first disk-accesses anyway. I considered that, in practice it isn't going to make any difference, I _totally_ agree. But

[patch] highmem-2.4.2-A0

2001-02-26 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > The highmem changes in 2.4.2ac3 has a couple of bugs, one relevant > that can generate deadlocks (re-enable interrupts with io_request_lock > acquired). oops, right, the emergency-pool patch was just a quick hack to check whether this is the final

[patch] highmem-2.4.2-A0

2001-02-26 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: The highmem changes in 2.4.2ac3 has a couple of bugs, one relevant that can generate deadlocks (re-enable interrupts with io_request_lock acquired). oops, right, the emergency-pool patch was just a quick hack to check whether this is the final

Re: [patch] highmem-2.4.2-A0

2001-02-26 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:44:16PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: -ac4. Differences: no need to complicate highmem.c with pool-fillup on bootup. It will get refilled after the first disk-accesses anyway. I considered that, in practice it isn't going to make any difference, I _totally_ agree. But to