From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Daniel Phillips <phillips@google.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 19:53:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1179424430.2925.7.camel@lappy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705171029500.17245@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 10:30 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > > 2. It seems to be based on global ordering of allocations which is
> > > not possible given large systems and the relativistic constraints
> > > of physics. Ordering of events get more expensive the bigger the
> > > system is.
> > >
> > > How does this system work if you can just order events within
> > > a processor? Or within a node? Within a zone?
> >
> > /me fails again..
> >
> > Its about ensuring ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS memory only reaches PF_MEMALLOC
> > processes, not joe random's pi calculator.
>
> Watermarks are per zone?
Yes, but the page allocator might address multiple zones in order to
obtain a page.
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Daniel Phillips <phillips@google.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 19:53:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1179424430.2925.7.camel@lappy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705171029500.17245@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 10:30 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > > 2. It seems to be based on global ordering of allocations which is
> > > not possible given large systems and the relativistic constraints
> > > of physics. Ordering of events get more expensive the bigger the
> > > system is.
> > >
> > > How does this system work if you can just order events within
> > > a processor? Or within a node? Within a zone?
> >
> > /me fails again..
> >
> > Its about ensuring ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS memory only reaches PF_MEMALLOC
> > processes, not joe random's pi calculator.
>
> Watermarks are per zone?
Yes, but the page allocator might address multiple zones in order to
obtain a page.
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Thread overview: 138+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-14 13:19 [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-14 13:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-14 13:19 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm: page allocation rank Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-14 13:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-14 13:19 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm: slab allocation fairness Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-14 13:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-14 15:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-14 15:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-14 13:19 ` [PATCH 3/5] mm: slub " Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-14 13:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-14 15:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-14 15:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-14 16:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-14 16:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-14 16:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-14 16:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-14 13:19 ` [PATCH 4/5] mm: slob " Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-14 13:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-14 13:19 ` [PATCH 5/5] mm: allow mempool to fall back to memalloc reserves Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-14 13:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-14 15:53 ` [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair Christoph Lameter
2007-05-14 15:53 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-14 16:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-14 16:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-14 16:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-14 16:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-14 16:12 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-14 16:12 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-14 16:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-14 16:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-14 17:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-14 17:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-14 17:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-14 17:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-14 19:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-14 19:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-14 19:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-14 19:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-14 20:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-14 20:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-14 20:06 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-14 20:06 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-14 20:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-14 20:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-14 20:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-14 20:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-15 17:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-15 17:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-15 22:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-15 22:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-16 6:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-16 6:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-16 18:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-16 18:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-16 19:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-16 19:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-16 19:53 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-16 19:53 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-16 20:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-16 20:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-16 20:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-16 20:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-16 20:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-16 20:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-16 20:44 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-16 20:44 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-16 20:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-16 20:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-16 20:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-16 20:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-16 21:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-16 21:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-16 21:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-16 21:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-16 21:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-16 21:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-16 21:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-16 21:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-17 7:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-17 7:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-17 17:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-17 17:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-17 17:53 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2007-05-17 17:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-17 18:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-17 18:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-14 19:44 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-14 19:44 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-14 20:01 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-14 20:01 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-14 20:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-14 20:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-17 3:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-17 3:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-17 7:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-17 7:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-17 17:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-17 17:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-17 17:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-17 17:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-17 17:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-17 17:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-17 17:53 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-17 17:53 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-17 18:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-17 18:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-17 19:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-17 19:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-17 19:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-17 19:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-17 21:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-17 21:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-17 21:44 ` Paul Jackson
2007-05-17 21:44 ` Paul Jackson
2007-05-17 22:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-17 22:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-18 9:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-18 9:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-18 17:11 ` Paul Jackson
2007-05-18 17:11 ` Paul Jackson
2007-05-18 17:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-18 17:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-20 8:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-20 8:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-21 16:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-21 16:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-21 19:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-21 19:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-21 19:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-21 19:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-21 20:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-21 20:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-21 20:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-21 20:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-21 20:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-21 20:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-21 21:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-21 21:04 ` Christoph Lameter
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