Re: [PATCH 2/2] move slab pages to the lru, for 2.5.27

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 05:24, Craig Kulesa wrote:
>> This is an update for the 2.5 port of Ed Tomlinson's patch to move slab
>> pages onto the lru for page aging, atop 2.5.27 and the full rmap patch.  
>> It is aimed at being a fairer, self-tuning way to target and evict slab
>> pages.

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 12:54:28PM -0600, Steven Cole wrote:
> While trying to boot 2.5.27-rmap-slablru, I got this early in the boot:
> Kernel panic: Failed to create pte-chain mempool!
> In idle task - not syncing

The pte_chain mempool was ridiculously huge and the use of mempool for
this at all was in error.

Cheers,
Bill