Re: 2.4.20pre5aa2

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 09:39:24AM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 16:18, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> > So, returning to xfs, it is possible dbench really generates lots of
> > simultaneous vmaps because of its concurrency, so I would suggest to add
> > an atomic counter increased at every vmap/vmalloc and decreased at every
> > vfree and to check it after every increase storing the max value in a
> > sysctl, to see what's the max concurrency you reach with the vmaps. (you
> > can also export the counter via the sysctl, to verify for no memleaks
> > after unmounting xfs)
> > 
> > Andrea
> 
> There are no vmaps during normal operation on xfs unless you are
> setting extended attributes of more than 4K in size, or you
> used some more obscure mkfs options. Only filesystem recovery will
> use it otherwise. 

Perhaps the original poster used those obscure mkfs options? What option
will trigger huge allocations ? 


-Andi