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From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Indan Zupancic <indan@nul.nu>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] VM deadlock prevention -v4
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:20:16 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060814052015.GB1335@2ka.mipt.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44DFC707.7000404@google.com>

On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 05:42:47PM -0700, Daniel Phillips (phillips@google.com) wrote:
> High order allocations are just way too undependable without active
> defragmentation, which isn't even on the horizon at the moment.  We
> just need to treat any network hardware that can't scatter/gather into
> single pages as too broken to use for network block io.

A bit of network tree allocator free advertisement - per-CPU self 
defragmentation works reliably in that allocator, one could even find a
graphs of memory usage for NTA and SLAB-like allocator.

> As for sk_buff cow break, we need to look at which network paths do it
> (netfilter obviously, probably others) and decide whether we just want
> to declare that the feature breaks network block IO, or fix the feature
> so it plays well with reserve accounting.

I would suggest to consider skb cow (cloning) as a must.


> Regards,
> 
> Daniel

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-14  5:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-12 14:14 Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-12 14:14 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/4] pfn_to_kaddr() for UML Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-12 14:14 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/4] SROG allocator Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-12 14:14 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/4] deadlock prevention core Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-12 14:41   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-12 15:06     ` rename *MEMALLOC flags (was: Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/4] deadlock prevention core) Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-12 15:28       ` Indan Zupancic
2006-08-12 15:34         ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-14  0:06       ` rename *MEMALLOC flags Daniel Phillips
2006-08-14  1:00         ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-14  3:42           ` Nick Piggin
2006-08-12 17:31   ` [RFC][PATCH 3/4] deadlock prevention core Indan Zupancic
2006-08-12 17:44     ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-12 17:54       ` Indan Zupancic
2006-08-12 18:08         ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-12 18:32           ` Indan Zupancic
2006-08-12 18:47             ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-12 19:45               ` Indan Zupancic
2006-08-12 14:14 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/4] deadlock prevention for NBD Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-24 14:43   ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-12 16:51 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/4] VM deadlock prevention -v4 Indan Zupancic
2006-08-12 17:33   ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-12 18:16     ` Indan Zupancic
2006-08-12 18:54       ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-12 20:05         ` Indan Zupancic
2006-08-14  0:42         ` Daniel Phillips
2006-08-14  5:20           ` Evgeniy Polyakov [this message]
2006-08-14 12:21             ` Rik van Riel
2006-08-14 12:51               ` Herbert Xu
2006-08-14 14:22                 ` Rik van Riel

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