linux-kernel - Re: Forward port of latest RT patch (2.6.21.5-rt20) to 2.6.22 available

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Message-Id: <1184319775.12353.300.camel@chaos>
Date:	Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:42:55 +0200
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
Cc:	Peter Williams <pwil3058@...pond.net.au>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>, jim.houston@...r.com,
	joe.korty@...r.com, rostedt@...dmis.org, dwalker@...sta.com,
	David Bahi <DBahi@...ell.com>,
	Moiz Kohari <MKohari@...ell.com>,
	Sven Dietrich <SDietrich@...ell.com>, dsaxena@...xity.net,
	williams@...hat.com, abogani@...ware.it,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Forward port of latest RT patch (2.6.21.5-rt20) to
	2.6.22	available

On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 04:43 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> we are working on something in this area :) Stay tuned ...
> >
> >I've just been reviewing these patches and have spotted an error in the
> >file mm/slob.c at lines 500-501 whereby a non existent variable "c" is
> >referenced.  The attached patch is a proposed fix to the problem.
> 
> Could this explain why 2.6.22.1-rt1 seems to use a lot of swap?  I've been as 
> high as 570 megs into swap, currently at 286megs after doing a 
> swapoff --a;swapon -a about 8 hours ago.

No, we disabled SLOB for now. So this is something different.

	tglx


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