Linux 2.1.100pre1
pre-100 (on ftp.kernel.org now), moves the dcache shrinking into the regular memory de-allocation loop, and while the exact shrinking speed is probably completely off, it should be able to react much better to small-memory machines than the hardcoded shrink did.. Also, for those that appear to still have SMP interrupt stability problems, Ingo pointed out that we may have problems with PCI level-triggered interrupts. Could those people please test an additional small patch that involves moving the "ack_APIC_irq();" inside arch/i386/kernel/irq.c: do_ioapic_IRQ() from the top of the function to the very bottom of that function (that will move it to outside the irq controller lock, but it should actually be perfectly ok in this case). Linus
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