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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@istop.com>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>
Cc: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>,
	Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Network vm deadlock... solution?
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 10:55:09 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508031055.09787.phillips@istop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16580000.1123022344@[10.10.2.4]>

On Wednesday 03 August 2005 08:39, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> --Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> wrote (on Tuesday, August 02, 2005 
> > Btw I do not get what the mempool/GFP_CRITICAL idea buys: it seems
> > redundant with the threshold ("if (memory_pressure)") used in the Rx path
> > to decide that memory is low.
>
> It's send-side, not receive.

Receive side.  Send side also needs reserve+throttling but it is easier 
because we flag packets at allocation time for special handling.

Regards,

Daniel
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-03  0:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <1123003658.3754.28.camel@w-sridhar2.beaverton.ibm.com>
2005-08-02 20:13   ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-02 21:43     ` Francois Romieu
2005-08-02 22:39       ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-08-03  0:55         ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2005-08-02 23:04       ` Daniel Phillips

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