From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/6] Critical Page Pool
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:01:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051214120152.GB5270@opteron.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051214100841.GA18381@elf.ucw.cz>
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 11:08:41AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> because reserved memory pool would have to be "sum of all network
> interface bandwidths * ammount of time expected to survive without
> network" which is way too much.
Yes, a global pool isn't really useful. A per-subsystem pool would be
more reasonable...
> gigabytes into your machine. But don't go introducing infrastructure
> that _can't_ be used right.
Agreed, the current design of the patch can't be used right.
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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/6] Critical Page Pool
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:01:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051214120152.GB5270@opteron.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051214100841.GA18381@elf.ucw.cz>
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 11:08:41AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> because reserved memory pool would have to be "sum of all network
> interface bandwidths * ammount of time expected to survive without
> network" which is way too much.
Yes, a global pool isn't really useful. A per-subsystem pool would be
more reasonable...
> gigabytes into your machine. But don't go introducing infrastructure
> that _can't_ be used right.
Agreed, the current design of the patch can't be used right.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-14 12:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-14 7:50 [RFC][PATCH 0/6] Critical Page Pool Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14 7:50 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14 7:52 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/6] Create " Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14 10:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-12-14 10:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-12-14 13:30 ` Rik van Riel
2005-12-14 13:30 ` Rik van Riel
2005-12-14 16:26 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14 16:26 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-12-15 3:29 ` Matt Mackall
2005-12-15 3:29 ` Matt Mackall
2005-12-14 7:54 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/6] in_emergency Trigger Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14 7:56 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/6] Slab Prep: get/return_object Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14 8:19 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-12-14 8:19 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-12-14 16:26 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14 16:26 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14 7:58 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/6] Slab Prep: slab_destruct() Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14 8:37 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-12-14 8:37 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-12-14 16:30 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14 16:30 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14 7:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/6] Slab Prep: Move cache_grow() Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14 8:02 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/6] Critical Page Pool: Slab Support Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14 10:08 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/6] Critical Page Pool Pavel Machek
2005-12-14 10:08 ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-14 12:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2005-12-14 12:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-12-14 13:03 ` Alan Cox
2005-12-14 13:03 ` Alan Cox
2005-12-14 16:37 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14 16:37 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14 19:17 ` Alan Cox
2005-12-14 19:17 ` Alan Cox
2005-12-15 16:27 ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-15 16:27 ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-14 16:03 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14 16:03 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14 15:55 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-12-14 15:55 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-12-15 16:26 ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-15 16:26 ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-15 21:51 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-12-15 21:51 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-12-16 5:02 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2005-12-16 5:02 ` Sridhar Samudrala
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