linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: Fix XFS oops due to dirty pages without buffers on s390

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Message-ID: <20121011094257.61a9a460@mschwide>
Date:	Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:42:57 +0200
From:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, xfs@....sgi.com,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Fix XFS oops due to dirty pages without buffers on
 s390

On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:28:32 -0700 (PDT)
Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com> wrote:

> But perhaps these machines aren't much into heavy swapping.  Now, 
> if Martin would send me a nice little zSeries netbook for Xmas,
> I could then test that end of it myself ;)

Are you sure about that? The electricity cost alone for such a beast
is quite high ;-)

> I've just arrived at the conclusion that page migration does _not_
> have a problem with transferring the dirty storage key: I had been
> thinking that your testing might stumble on that issue, and need a
> further patch, but I'll explain in other mail why now I think not.

That is good to know, one problem less on the list.

-- 
blue skies,
   Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.

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