linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.30-rc kills my box hard

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Message-ID: <20090516171316.3e68d4f9@bike.lwn.net>
Date:	Sat, 16 May 2009 17:13:16 -0600
From:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: 2.6.30-rc kills my box hard - and lockdep chains

On Sat, 16 May 2009 16:03:45 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Jon said that doubling MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS didn't help.  How much did
> the above patch increase things by?

I doubled MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES, but hadn't yet gotten around to trying
MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS.  It felt like I was going into territory where
nobody else was complaining, so it seemed like maybe trying to paper
over something else.  I've not had a chance to go back and try with
both parameters increased, will do.

jon
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