Re: VFS nr_files accounting

[David S. Miller]

From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 19:47:17 +0530

> Dave, there is a set of patches in -mm that may handle this
> better -
> 
> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc5/2.6.16-rc5-mm2/broken-out/rcu-batch-tuning.patch
> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc5/2.6.16-rc5-mm2/broken-out/fix-file-counting.patch
> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc5/2.6.16-rc5-mm2/broken-out/fix-file-counting-fixes.patch
> 
> Could you please try this in your setup ?
> 
> The rcu-batch tuning patch provides automatic switching to
> process as many RCUs as possible if too many of them are queued.
> The file counting fixes count the file structures correctly.

Thanks, I'll give these patches a spin.
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