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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/6] Critical Page Pool
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:01:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051214120152.GB5270@opteron.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051214100841.GA18381@elf.ucw.cz>

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 11:08:41AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> because reserved memory pool would have to be "sum of all network
> interface bandwidths * ammount of time expected to survive without
> network" which is way too much.

Yes, a global pool isn't really useful. A per-subsystem pool would be
more reasonable...

> gigabytes into your machine. But don't go introducing infrastructure
> that _can't_ be used right.

Agreed, the current design of the patch can't be used right.

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-14 12:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-14  7:50 Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14  7:52 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/6] Create " Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14 10:48   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-12-14 13:30   ` Rik van Riel
2005-12-14 16:26     ` Matthew Dobson
2005-12-15  3:29       ` Matt Mackall
2005-12-14  7:54 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/6] in_emergency Trigger Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14  7:56 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/6] Slab Prep: get/return_object Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14  8:19   ` Pekka Enberg
2005-12-14 16:26     ` Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14  7:58 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/6] Slab Prep: slab_destruct() Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14  8:37   ` Pekka Enberg
2005-12-14 16:30     ` Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14  7:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/6] Slab Prep: Move cache_grow() Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14  8:02 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/6] Critical Page Pool: Slab Support Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14 10:08 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/6] Critical Page Pool Pavel Machek
2005-12-14 12:01   ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2005-12-14 13:03     ` Alan Cox
2005-12-14 16:37       ` Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14 19:17         ` Alan Cox
2005-12-15 16:27         ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-14 16:03     ` Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14 15:55   ` Matthew Dobson
2005-12-15 16:26     ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-15 21:51       ` Matthew Dobson
2005-12-16  5:02         ` Sridhar Samudrala

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