From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ed1-f71.google.com (mail-ed1-f71.google.com [209.85.208.71]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E10746B0010 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:10:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-ed1-f71.google.com with SMTP id f16-v6so475873edq.18 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2018 06:10:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de. [195.135.220.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o8-v6si3988144edl.95.2018.06.22.06.10.14 for (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 22 Jun 2018 06:10:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:10:13 +0200 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: dm bufio: Reduce dm_bufio_lock contention Message-ID: <20180622131013.GA10465@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <20180615073201.GB24039@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20180615115547.GH24039@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20180615130925.GI24039@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20180619104312.GD13685@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20180622090151.GS10465@dhcp22.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mikulas Patocka Cc: jing xia , Mike Snitzer , agk@redhat.com, dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org On Fri 22-06-18 08:44:52, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2018, Michal Hocko wrote: [...] > > Why? How are you going to audit all the callers that the behavior makes > > sense and moreover how are you going to ensure that future usage will > > still make sense. The more subtle side effects gfp flags have the harder > > they are to maintain. > > I did audit them - see the previous email in this thread: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2018-June/thread.html I do not see any mention about throttling expectations for those users. You have focused only on the allocation failure fallback AFAIR -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs