Hi! Just a quick update Johannes Weiner wrote on 03.12.2012 20:42: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 09:30:12AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >> BTW, I built that kernel without the patch you mentioned in >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/90911/focus=91153 >> ("buffer_heads_over_limit can put kswapd into reclaim, but it's ignored >> [...]) It looked to me like that patch was only meant for debugging. Let >> me know if that was wrong. Ohh, and I didn't update to a fresher >> mainline checkout yet to make sure the base for John's testing didn't >> change. > > Ah, yes, the ApplyPatch is commented out. > > I think we want that upstream as well, but it's not critical. > [...] Sorry, it had no "Singed-off-by", so I assumed it was just for debugging. > Not rebasing sounds reasonable to me to verify the patch. It might be > worth testing that the final version that will be 3.8 still works for > John, however, once that is done. Just to be sure. Just to be sure, I yesterday built a rc8 kernel with the patch referenced above and the one that is not yet merged (these two, to be precise: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/90911/focus=91153 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/90911/focus=91300 ; all the others patches my kswap test kernels contained earlier were afaics merged a few days ago) and mentioned it in the Fedora bug report. John gave them a try and in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=866988#c65 reported "No problems so far. I'll check back again in ~24hours." CU, Thorsten -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>