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From: "Daniel Phillips" <daniel.raymond.phillips@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Daniel Phillips <phillips@phunq.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Daniel Phillips <phillips@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 23:34:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4a5909270708092034yaa0a583w70084ef93266df48@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708091844450.3185@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On 8/9/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> The allocations problems that this patch addresses can be fixed by making reclaim
> more intelligent.

If you believe that the deadlock problems we address here can be
better fixed by making reclaim more intelligent then please post a
patch and we will test it.  I am highly skeptical, but the proof is in
the patch.

> If we can reclaim in an emergency even in ATOMIC contexts then things get much
> easier.

It is already easy, and it is already fixed in this patch series.
Sure, we can pare these patches down a little more, but you are going
to have a really hard time coming up with something simpler that
actually works.

Regards,

Daniel

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-10  3:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-06 10:29 [PATCH 00/10] foundations for reserve-based allocation Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 10:29 ` [PATCH 01/10] mm: gfp_to_alloc_flags() Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 10:29 ` [PATCH 02/10] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 18:11   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 18:21     ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06 18:31       ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 18:43         ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06 19:11         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 19:31           ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 20:12             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 18:42       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 18:48         ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06 18:51           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 19:15             ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06 20:12             ` Matt Mackall
2007-08-06 20:19               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 20:26                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 21:05                   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 22:59                     ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06 23:14                       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 23:49                         ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-07 22:18                           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-08  7:24                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-08 18:06                               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-08  7:37                             ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-08 18:09                               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-09 18:41                                 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-09 18:49                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-10  0:17                                     ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-10  1:48                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-10  3:34                                         ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2007-08-10  3:48                                           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-10  8:15                                             ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-10 17:46                                               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-10 23:25                                                 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-13  6:55                                                 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-13 23:04                                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 20:27                 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-06 23:16                   ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06 22:47                 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06 10:29 ` [PATCH 03/10] mm: tag reseve pages Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 18:11   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 18:13     ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06 18:28     ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 19:34     ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-06 18:43       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 18:47         ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 18:59           ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-06 19:09             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 19:10             ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-06 19:16               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 19:38               ` Matt Mackall
2007-08-06 20:18               ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-06 10:29 ` [PATCH 04/10] mm: slub: add knowledge of reserve pages Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-08  0:13   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-08  1:44     ` Matt Mackall
2007-08-08 17:13       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-08 17:39         ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-08 17:57           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-08 18:46             ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-10  1:54               ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-10  2:01                 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-20  7:38   ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-20  7:43     ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-20  9:12     ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-08-20  9:17       ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-20  9:28         ` Pekka Enberg
2007-08-20 19:26           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-20 20:08             ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 10:29 ` [PATCH 05/10] mm: allow mempool to fall back to memalloc reserves Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 10:29 ` [PATCH 06/10] mm: kmem_estimate_pages() Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 10:29 ` [PATCH 07/10] mm: allow PF_MEMALLOC from softirq context Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 10:29 ` [PATCH 08/10] mm: serialize access to min_free_kbytes Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 10:29 ` [PATCH 09/10] mm: emergency pool Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 10:29 ` [PATCH 10/10] mm: __GFP_MEMALLOC Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 17:35 ` [PATCH 00/10] foundations for reserve-based allocation Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06 18:17   ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 18:40     ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06 19:31     ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06 19:36       ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 19:53         ` Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06 17:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 18:33   ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-06 20:23 ` Matt Mackall
2007-08-07  0:09   ` Daniel Phillips

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