From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m33so771949wag for ; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:34:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4a5909270708092034yaa0a583w70084ef93266df48@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 23:34:20 -0400 From: "Daniel Phillips" Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070806102922.907530000@chello.nl> <200708061649.56487.phillips@phunq.net> <4a5909270708080037n32be2a73k5c28d33bb02f770b@mail.gmail.com> <4a5909270708091141tb259eddyb2bba1270751ef1@mail.gmail.com> <4a5909270708091717n2f93fcb5i284d82edfd235145@mail.gmail.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Daniel Phillips , Peter Zijlstra , Matt Mackall , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, David Miller , Andrew Morton , Daniel Phillips List-ID: On 8/9/07, Christoph Lameter 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org