On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:52:47PM -0600, Tim Gardner wrote: > Mel, > > Please find attached a backport for > 88f5acf88ae6a9778f6d25d0d5d7ec2d57764a97 that Greg requested for > 2.6.32.y stable. There are some fairly substantial differences in > the 2.6.38 mm/vmscan.c and the 2.6.32 backport that I'd like to have > reviewed. That being said, I don't actually have a reproducer for > 2.6.32 that causes the same issues as are observed on 2.6.35. To > test I'm booting with "maxcpus=0 mem=128M" and running the command > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb count=1 bs=1028653056 > > where /dev/sdb is a slow USB flash drive. And yes, it dives deep > into swap space while building the output buffer. 2.6.32 behaves > quite well with or without this patch, so perhaps we ought to leave > well enough alone. If it ain't broke, don't fix it ?
I would agree with this. If we can't duplicate the problem on .32, let's not mess with this now. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
