From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mgorman@suse.de
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
neilb@suse.de, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu,
emunson@mgebm.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/17] netvm: Set PF_MEMALLOC as appropriate during SKB processing
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 01:03:39 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120511.010339.375923873885534514.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1336657510-24378-14-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de>
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 14:45:06 +0100
> In order to make sure pfmemalloc packets receive all memory
> needed to proceed, ensure processing of pfmemalloc SKBs happens
> under PF_MEMALLOC. This is limited to a subset of protocols that
> are expected to be used for writing to swap. Taps are not allowed to
> use PF_MEMALLOC as these are expected to communicate with userspace
> processes which could be paged out.
>
> [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Ideas taken from various patches]
> [jslaby@suse.cz: Lock imbalance fix]
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
This adds more code where we're modifying task->flags from software
interrupt context. I'm not convinced that's safe.
Also, this starts to add new tests in the fast paths.
Most of the time they are not going to trigger at all.
Please use the static branch I asked you to add in a previous
patch to mitigate this.
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-10 13:44 [PATCH 00/17] Swap-over-NBD without deadlocking V10 Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:44 ` [PATCH 01/17] mm: Serialize access to min_free_kbytes Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:44 ` [PATCH 02/17] mm: sl[au]b: Add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:44 ` [PATCH 03/17] mm: slub: Optimise the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:44 ` [PATCH 04/17] mm: Introduce __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to emergency reserves Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:44 ` [PATCH 05/17] mm: allow PF_MEMALLOC from softirq context Mel Gorman
2012-05-11 4:39 ` David Miller
2012-05-14 10:02 ` Mel Gorman
2012-05-15 13:07 ` Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:44 ` [PATCH 06/17] mm: Only set page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was used Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:45 ` [PATCH 07/17] mm: Ignore mempolicies when using ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:45 ` [PATCH 08/17] net: Introduce sk_allocation() to allow addition of GFP flags depending on the individual socket Mel Gorman
2012-05-11 4:49 ` David Miller
2012-05-11 14:12 ` Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:45 ` [PATCH 09/17] netvm: Allow the use of __GFP_MEMALLOC by specific sockets Mel Gorman
2012-05-11 4:50 ` David Miller
2012-05-10 13:45 ` [PATCH 10/17] netvm: Allow skb allocation to use PFMEMALLOC reserves Mel Gorman
2012-05-11 4:57 ` David Miller
2012-05-11 14:32 ` Mel Gorman
2012-05-11 14:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-11 15:07 ` Mel Gorman
2012-05-11 21:17 ` David Miller
2012-05-10 13:45 ` [PATCH 11/17] netvm: Propagate page->pfmemalloc to skb Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:45 ` [PATCH 12/17] netvm: Propagate page->pfmemalloc from netdev_alloc_page " Mel Gorman
2012-05-11 5:01 ` David Miller
2012-05-11 14:46 ` Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:45 ` [PATCH 13/17] netvm: Set PF_MEMALLOC as appropriate during SKB processing Mel Gorman
2012-05-11 5:03 ` David Miller [this message]
2012-05-10 13:45 ` [PATCH 14/17] mm: Micro-optimise slab to avoid a function call Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:45 ` [PATCH 15/17] nbd: Set SOCK_MEMALLOC for access to PFMEMALLOC reserves Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:45 ` [PATCH 16/17] mm: Throttle direct reclaimers if PF_MEMALLOC reserves are low and swap is backed by network storage Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 13:45 ` [PATCH 17/17] mm: Account for the number of times direct reclaimers get throttled Mel Gorman
2012-05-10 17:17 ` [PATCH 00/17] Swap-over-NBD without deadlocking V10 Mike Christie
2012-05-11 5:04 ` David Miller
2012-05-11 15:45 ` Mel Gorman
2012-05-11 21:23 ` David Miller
2012-05-11 21:29 ` Andrew Morton
2012-05-14 11:10 ` Mel Gorman
2012-05-17 14:50 [PATCH 00/17] Swap-over-NBD without deadlocking V11 Mel Gorman
2012-05-17 14:50 ` [PATCH 13/17] netvm: Set PF_MEMALLOC as appropriate during SKB processing Mel Gorman
2012-05-17 20:13 ` David Miller
2012-06-20 11:43 [PATCH 00/17] Swap-over-NBD without deadlocking V12 (resend) Mel Gorman
2012-06-20 11:44 ` [PATCH 13/17] netvm: Set PF_MEMALLOC as appropriate during SKB processing Mel Gorman
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