Re: linux 2.4.2-XFS

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

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> Steve,
> 
> I ran "iozone -s 4000m" again with a new kernel (your attached patch).
> I'm getting the same errors and have attached a slab.out.gz file showing
> slabinfo every 1s during the test.  The __alloc_pages: error shows up a
> few seconds into the test.  buffer_head values seem to ramp up
> quickly with iozone...
> 
> -Galen
> 

Yep, looking at the first slabcache output, the patch will not help at all
in this scenario. Another one for the todo list....

Steve