From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, tgraf@suug.ch,
James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, phillips@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/40] Swap over Networked storage -v12
Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 10:43:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070505094300.GA9592@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070504.122716.31641374.davem@davemloft.net>
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 12:27:16PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 12:26:51 +0200
>
> > There is a fundamental deadlock associated with paging;
>
> I know you'd really like people like myself to review this work, but a
> set of 40 patches is just too much to try and digest at once
> especially when I have other things going on. When I have lots of
> other things already on my plate, when I see a huge patch set like
> this I have to just say "delete" because I don't kid myself since
> I know I'll never get to it.
>
> Sorry there's now way I can review this with my current workload.
There also quite alot of only semi-related thing in there. It would
be much better to only do the network stack and iscsi parts first
and leave nfs out for a while. Especially as the former are definitively
useful while I strongly doubt that for swap over nfs.
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Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-04 10:26 Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:26 ` [PATCH 01/40] mm: page allocation rank Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:26 ` [PATCH 02/40] mm: slab allocation fairness Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-16 20:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-04 10:26 ` [PATCH 03/40] mm: allow PF_MEMALLOC from softirq context Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:26 ` [PATCH 04/40] mm: serialize access to min_free_kbytes Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:26 ` [PATCH 05/40] mm: emergency pool Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:26 ` [PATCH 06/40] mm: __GFP_EMERGENCY Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:26 ` [PATCH 07/40] mm: allow mempool to fall back to memalloc reserves Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:26 ` [PATCH 08/40] mm: kmem_cache_objsize Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:54 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-05-04 16:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-04 16:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 16:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-04 16:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 16:36 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-04 17:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 18:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-04 18:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 18:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-04 18:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 18:45 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-05-04 18:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-04 18:54 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-05-04 19:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-05 9:00 ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-05-04 18:41 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-05-04 18:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-04 18:53 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-05-04 19:58 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 09/40] mm: optimize gfp_to_rank() Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 10/40] selinux: tag avc cache alloc as non-critical Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 11/40] net: wrap sk->sk_backlog_rcv() Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 12/40] net: packet split receive api Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 13/40] net: sk_allocation() - concentrate socket related allocations Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 14/40] netvm: link network to vm layer Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 15/40] netvm: INET reserves Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 16/40] netvm: hook skb allocation to reserves Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 14:07 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 17/40] netvm: filter emergency skbs Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 18/40] netvm: prevent a TCP specific deadlock Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 19/40] netfilter: notify about NF_QUEUE vs emergency skbs Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 20/40] netvm: skb processing Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 21/40] uml: rename arch/um remove_mapping() Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 22/40] mm: prepare swap entry methods for use in page methods Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 23/40] mm: add support for non block device backed swap files Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 24/40] mm: methods for teaching filesystems about PG_swapcache pages Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 25/40] nfs: remove mempools Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 26/40] nfs: teach the NFS client how to treat PG_swapcache pages Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 27/40] nfs: disable data cache revalidation for swapfiles Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 28/40] nfs: enable swap on NFS Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 29/40] nfs: fix various memory recursions possible with swap over NFS Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 30/40] nfs: fixup missing error code Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 13:10 ` Peter Staubach
2007-05-04 13:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 31/40] mm: balance_dirty_pages() vs throttle_vm_writeout() deadlock Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 32/40] block: add a swapdev callback to the request_queue Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 33/40] uml: enable scsi and add iscsi config Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 34/40] sock: safely expose kernel sockets to userspace Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 35/40] From: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com> Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 36/40] iscsi: fixup of the ep_connect patch Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 37/40] iscsi: ensure the iscsi kernel fd is not usable in userspace Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 38/40] netlink: add SOCK_VMIO support to AF_NETLINK Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 39/40] mm: a process flags to avoid blocking allocations Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 10:27 ` [PATCH 40/40] iscsi: support for swapping over iSCSI Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 15:22 ` [PATCH 00/40] Swap over Networked storage -v12 Daniel Walker
2007-05-04 15:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 15:59 ` Daniel Walker
2007-05-04 18:09 ` Mike Snitzer
2007-05-04 19:31 ` Daniel Walker
2007-05-04 19:54 ` David Miller, Mike Snitzer
2007-05-04 21:36 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2007-05-04 19:27 ` David Miller, Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 19:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 20:02 ` David Miller, Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-04 20:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-05 9:43 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-05-05 9:55 ` William Lee Irwin III
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