From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Indan Zupancic <indan@nul.nu>,
Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>,
Daniel Phillips <phillips@google.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] VM deadlock prevention -v5
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:04:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44EF1F7A.3080001@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608250849480.9083@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
>> The basic premises is that network sockets serving the VM need undisturbed
>> functionality in the face of severe memory shortage.
>>
>> This patch-set provides the framework to provide this.
>
> Hmmm.. Is it not possible to avoid the memory pools by
> guaranteeing that a certain number of page is easily reclaimable?
No.
You need to guarantee that the memory is not gobbled up by
another subsystem, but remains available for use by *this*
subsystem. Otherwise you could still deadlock.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-25 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-25 15:39 Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-25 15:39 ` [PATCH 1/4] net: VM deadlock avoidance framework Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-26 2:37 ` Indan Zupancic
2006-08-28 10:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-28 16:03 ` Indan Zupancic
2006-08-28 17:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-29 0:01 ` Indan Zupancic
2006-08-29 9:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-29 19:53 ` Indan Zupancic
2006-08-25 15:40 ` [PATCH 2/4] blkdev: iosched selection for queue creation Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-25 15:40 ` [PATCH 3/4] nbd: deadlock prevention for NBD Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-25 15:40 ` [PATCH 4/4] nfs: deadlock prevention for NFS Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-25 20:14 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-08-25 20:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-26 3:05 ` Indan Zupancic
2006-08-25 15:51 ` [PATCH 0/4] VM deadlock prevention -v5 Christoph Lameter
2006-08-25 15:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-25 16:04 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
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