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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com,
	MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	Takenori Nagano <t-nagano@ah.jp.nec.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] prevent incorrect oom under split_lru
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:36:01 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080626093338.FCF7.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1214395885.15232.17.camel@twins>

> > But if such emergency happen in embedded system, application can't be
> > executed for some time.
> > I am not sure how long time it take.
> > But In some application, schedule period is very important than memory
> > reclaim latency.
> > 
> > Now, In your patch, when such emergency happen, it continue to reclaim
> > page until it will scan entire page of lru list.
> > It
> 
> IMHO embedded real-time apps shoud mlockall() and not do anything that
> can result in memory allocations in their fast (deterministic) paths.

Indeed.

> The much more important case is desktop usage - that is where we run non
> real-time code, but do expect 'low' latency due to user-interaction.
> 
> >From hitting swap on my 512M laptop (rather frequent occurance) I know
> we can do better here,..

nice suggestion.
thanks.


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-26  0:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-24  8:31 KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-06-24 13:28 ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-25  5:59   ` MinChan Kim
2008-06-25  6:08     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-06-25  6:56       ` MinChan Kim
2008-06-25  6:58         ` MinChan Kim
2008-06-25  7:29           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-06-25  7:37             ` MinChan Kim
2008-06-25 12:11         ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-25 13:05           ` MinChan Kim
2008-06-26  1:49             ` Takenori Nagano
2008-06-26  4:37               ` MinChan Kim
2008-06-26  5:24                 ` Takenori Nagano
2008-06-26  6:37                   ` MinChan Kim
2008-06-26  8:05                     ` Takenori Nagano
2008-06-26  0:36           ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]

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