From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, nacc@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/11] Shared Policy Overview
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:46:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070627234634.GI8604@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200706280001.16383.ak@suse.de>
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 12:01:16AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > The zonelist from MPOL_BIND is passed to __alloc_pages. As a result the
> > RCU lock must be held over the call into the page allocator with reclaim
> > etc etc. Note that the zonelist is part of the policy structure.
>
> Yes I realized this at some point too. RCU doesn't work here because
> __alloc_pages can sleep. Have to use the reference counts even though
> it adds atomic operations.
Any reason SRCU wouldn't work here? From a quick glance at the patch,
it seems possible to me.
Thanx, Paul
> > I think one prerequisite to memory policy uses like this is work out how a
> > memory policy can be handled by the page allocator in such a way that
> >
> > 1. The use is lightweight and does not impact performance.
>
> The current mempolicies are all lightweight and zero cost in the main
> allocator path.
>
> The only outlier is still cpusets which does strange stuff, but you
> can't blame mempolicies for that.
>
> -Andi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-27 23:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-25 19:52 Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-25 19:52 ` [PATCH/RFC 1/11] Shared Policy: move shared policy to inode/mapping Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-25 19:52 ` [PATCH/RFC 2/11] Shared Policy: allocate shared policies as needed Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-25 19:52 ` [PATCH/RFC 3/11] Shared Policy: let vma policy ops handle sub-vma policies Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-25 19:52 ` [PATCH/RFC 4/11] Shared Policy: fix show_numa_maps() Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-25 19:52 ` [PATCH/RFC 5/11] Shared Policy: Add hugepage shmem policy vm_ops Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-25 19:53 ` [PATCH/RFC 6/11] Shared Policy: Factor alloc_page_pol routine Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-25 19:53 ` [PATCH/RFC 7/11] Shared Policy: use shared policy for page cache allocations Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-25 19:53 ` [PATCH/RFC 8/11] Shared Policy: fix migration of private mappings Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-25 19:53 ` [PATCH/RFC 9/11] Shared Policy: mapped file policy persistence model Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-25 19:53 ` [PATCH/RFC 10/11] Shared Policy: per cpuset shared file policy control Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-25 21:10 ` Paul Jackson
2007-06-27 17:33 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-27 19:52 ` Paul Jackson
2007-06-27 20:22 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-27 20:36 ` Paul Jackson
2007-06-25 19:53 ` [PATCH/RFC 11/11] Shared Policy: add generic file set/get policy vm ops Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-26 22:17 ` [PATCH/RFC 0/11] Shared Policy Overview Christoph Lameter
2007-06-27 13:43 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-26 22:21 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-26 22:42 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-27 3:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-27 20:14 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-27 18:14 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-27 21:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-27 22:01 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-27 22:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-27 23:46 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2007-06-28 0:14 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-29 21:47 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-28 13:42 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-28 22:02 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-29 17:14 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-29 17:42 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-30 18:34 ` [PATCH/RFC] Fix Mempolicy Ref Counts - was " Lee Schermerhorn
2007-07-03 18:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-29 1:39 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-29 9:01 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-29 14:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-29 17:41 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-29 20:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-29 13:22 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-29 14:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-27 23:36 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-29 1:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-29 13:30 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-29 14:20 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-29 21:40 ` Lee Schermerhorn
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