From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] VM deadlock avoidance -v10
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:20:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1169025638.22935.114.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070117091206.GA9845@elf.ucw.cz>
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 10:12 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > These patches implement the basic infrastructure to allow swap over networked
> > storage.
> >
> > The basic idea is to reserve some memory up front to use when regular memory
> > runs out.
> >
> > To bound network behaviour we accept only a limited number of concurrent
> > packets and drop those packets that are not aimed at the connection(s) servicing
> > the VM. Also all network paths that interact with userspace are to be avoided -
> > e.g. taps and NF_QUEUE.
> >
> > PF_MEMALLOC is set when processing emergency skbs. This makes sense in that we
> > are indeed working on behalf of the swapper/VM. This allows us to use the
> > regular memory allocators for processing but requires that said processing have
> > bounded memory usage and has that accounted in the reserve.
>
> How does it work with ARP, for example? You still need to reply to ARP
> if you want to keep your ethernet connections.
ETH_P_ARP is fully processed (under PF_MEMALLOC).
ETH_P_IP{,V6} starts to drop packets not for selected sockets
(SOCK_VMIO) and processes the rest (under PF_MEMALLOC) with limitations;
the packet may never depend on user-space to complete processing.
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-16 9:45 Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-16 9:45 ` [PATCH 1/9] mm: page allocation rank Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-16 9:45 ` [PATCH 2/9] mm: slab allocation fairness Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-16 9:46 ` [PATCH 3/9] mm: allow PF_MEMALLOC from softirq context Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-16 9:46 ` [PATCH 4/9] mm: serialize access to min_free_kbytes Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-16 9:46 ` [PATCH 5/9] mm: emergency pool Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-16 9:46 ` [PATCH 6/9] mm: __GFP_EMERGENCY Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-16 9:46 ` [PATCH 7/9] mm: allow mempool to fall back to memalloc reserves Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-16 9:46 ` [PATCH 8/9] slab: kmem_cache_objs_to_pages() Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-16 9:46 ` [PATCH 9/9] net: vm deadlock avoidance core Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-16 13:25 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-01-16 13:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-16 15:33 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-01-16 16:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-17 4:54 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-01-17 9:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-18 10:41 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-01-18 12:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-18 13:58 ` Possible ways of dealing with OOM conditions Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-01-18 15:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-18 15:50 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-01-18 17:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-18 18:34 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-01-19 12:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-19 22:56 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-01-20 22:36 ` Rik van Riel
2007-01-21 1:46 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-01-21 2:14 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-01-21 16:30 ` Rik van Riel
2007-01-19 17:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-17 9:12 ` [PATCH 0/9] VM deadlock avoidance -v10 Pavel Machek
2007-01-17 9:20 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
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