On 12.10.2006 [12:46:13 -0700], Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > On 12.10.2006 [11:41:12 -0700], Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > On 12.10.2006 [11:12:53 -0700], Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > > On 11.10.2006 [11:29:05 +1000], David Gibson wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 11:28:55AM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > > > > On 10.10.2006 [15:36:47 +1000], David Gibson wrote:
<snip> > Description: Since we now pad the BSS of relinked binaries, we now > require a larger number of hugepages than before, even if most of them > are unused. This leads to issues with the linkshare testcase, as it > spawns a fixed number of threads, all of which will consume hugepages > and eventually lead to a ENOMEM (in hugepages) condition. Modify the > testcase invocation to spawn a number of threads relative to the number > of free hugepages (even if the BSS padding is fixed differently, this is > a reasonable thing to do). Also modify the linkshare testcase to do > nothing if no threads are requested (which will now occur if the number > of hugepages free in the system is 0). I should also mention: Compile- and run-tested on a ppc64 kernel with 0, 100 and 200 hugepages allocated. Without the patch, the middle case will definitely cause unexpected failures. Thanks, Nish -- Nishanth Aravamudan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Libhugetlbfs-devel mailing list Libhugetlbfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libhugetlbfs-devel
