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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	torvalds@osdl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] beat kswapd with the proverbial clue-bat
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 20:09:30 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <413AE5DA.9070208@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040905062743.GG7716@krispykreme>

Anton Blanchard wrote:
>>There have been few reports, and I believe that networking is getting
>>changed to reduce the amount of GFP_ATOMIC higher-order allocation
>>attempts.
> 
> 
> FYI I seem to remember issues on loopback due to its large MTU. Also the

Yeah I had seen a few, surprisingly few though. Sorry I'm a bit clueless
about networking - I suppose there is a good reason for the 16K MTU? My
first thought might be that a 4K one could be better on CPU cache as well
as lighter on the mm. I know the networking guys know what they're doing
though...

> printk_ratelimit stuff first appeared because the e1000 was spewing so
> many higher order page allocation failures on some boxes.
> 
> But yes, the e1000 guys were going to look into multiple buffer mode so
> they dont need a high order allocation.
> 

Well let me be the first to say I don't want to stop that from happening.

With regard to getting this patchset tested, I might see if I can hunt
down another e1000 and give it a try at the end of the week. If anyone
would like to beat me to it, just let me know and I'll send out a new
set of patches with those couple of required fixes.
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-05 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-05  5:44 Nick Piggin
2004-09-05  5:45 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/3] account free buddy areas Nick Piggin
2004-09-05  5:46   ` [RFC][PATCH 2/3] alloc-order watermarks Nick Piggin
2004-09-05  5:47     ` [RFC][PATCH 3/3] teach kswapd about watermarks Nick Piggin
2004-09-05  6:04       ` David S. Miller
2004-09-05  6:20         ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-05  5:50     ` [RFC][PATCH 2/3] alloc-order watermarks Nick Piggin
2004-09-05  6:13   ` [RFC][PATCH 1/3] account free buddy areas Nick Piggin
2004-09-05  6:02 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/3] beat kswapd with the proverbial clue-bat David S. Miller
2004-09-05  6:16   ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-05 10:13     ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-05 17:24       ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-05 17:36         ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-05 17:37         ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-05 17:58           ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-05 18:41             ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-06  1:35             ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-15 13:27             ` Jörn Engel
2004-09-15 13:29               ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-15 13:34                 ` Jörn Engel
2004-09-15 13:39                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-15 14:18                     ` Jörn Engel
2004-09-06  1:09         ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-05  6:09 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-05  6:26   ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-05  6:27   ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-05 10:09     ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-09-06  3:33       ` David S. Miller
2004-09-06  8:55         ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-05 16:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-06  0:54   ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-06  1:49     ` Nick Piggin

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