From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@phunq.net>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Daniel Phillips <daniel.raymond.phillips@gmail.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Daniel Phillips <phillips@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:55:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708122355.34652.phillips@phunq.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708101041040.12758@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Friday 10 August 2007 10:46, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > It is quite clear what is in your patch. Instead of just grabbing
> > a page off the buddy free lists in a critical allocation situation
> > you go invoke shrink_caches. Why oh why? All the memory needed to
> > get
>
> Because we get to the code of interest when we have no memory on the
> buddy free lists...
Ah wait, that statement is incorrect and may well be the crux of your
misunderstanding. Buddy free lists are not exhausted until the entire
memalloc reserve has been depleted, which would indicate a kernel bug
and imminent system death.
> ...and need to reclaim memory to fill them up again.
That we do, but we satisfy the allocations in the vm writeout path
first, without waiting for shrink_caches to do its thing.
Regards,
Daniel
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Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-06 10:29 [PATCH 00/10] foundations for reserve-based allocation Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 10:29 ` [PATCH 01/10] mm: gfp_to_alloc_flags() Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 10:29 ` [PATCH 02/10] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 18:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 18:21 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06 18:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 18:43 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06 19:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 19:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 20:12 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 18:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 18:48 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06 18:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 19:15 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06 20:12 ` Matt Mackall
2007-08-06 20:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 20:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 21:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 22:59 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06 23:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 23:49 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-07 22:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-08 7:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-08 18:06 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-08 7:37 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-08 18:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-09 18:41 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-09 18:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-10 0:17 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-10 1:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-10 3:34 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-10 3:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-10 8:15 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-10 17:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-10 23:25 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-13 6:55 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2007-08-13 23:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 20:27 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-06 23:16 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06 22:47 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06 10:29 ` [PATCH 03/10] mm: tag reseve pages Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 18:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 18:13 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06 18:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 19:34 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-06 18:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 18:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 18:59 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-06 19:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 19:10 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-06 19:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 19:38 ` Matt Mackall
2007-08-06 20:18 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-06 10:29 ` [PATCH 04/10] mm: slub: add knowledge of reserve pages Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-08 0:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-08 1:44 ` Matt Mackall
2007-08-08 17:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-08 17:39 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-08 17:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-08 18:46 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-10 1:54 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-10 2:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-20 7:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-20 7:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-20 9:12 ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-08-20 9:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-20 9:28 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-08-20 19:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-20 20:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 10:29 ` [PATCH 05/10] mm: allow mempool to fall back to memalloc reserves Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 10:29 ` [PATCH 06/10] mm: kmem_estimate_pages() Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 10:29 ` [PATCH 07/10] mm: allow PF_MEMALLOC from softirq context Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 10:29 ` [PATCH 08/10] mm: serialize access to min_free_kbytes Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 10:29 ` [PATCH 09/10] mm: emergency pool Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 10:29 ` [PATCH 10/10] mm: __GFP_MEMALLOC Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 17:35 ` [PATCH 00/10] foundations for reserve-based allocation Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06 18:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 18:40 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06 19:31 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06 19:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 19:53 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06 17:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 18:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 20:23 ` Matt Mackall
2007-08-07 0:09 ` Daniel Phillips
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