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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Do not call ->writepage[s] from direct reclaim and use a_ops->writepages() where possible
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:11:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100615141122.GA27893@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100615140011.GD28052@random.random>

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 04:00:11PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> collecting clean cache doesn't still satisfy the allocation), during
> allocations in direct reclaim and increase the THREAD_SIZE than doing
> this purely for stack reasons as the VM will lose reliability if we

This basically means doubling the stack size, as you can splice together
two extremtly stack hungry codepathes in the worst case.  Do you really
want order 2 stack allocations?


  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-15 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-08  9:02 [RFC PATCH 0/6] Do not call ->writepage[s] from direct reclaim and use a_ops->writepages() where possible Mel Gorman
2010-06-08  9:02 ` [PATCH 1/6] tracing, vmscan: Add trace events for kswapd wakeup, sleeping and direct reclaim Mel Gorman
2010-06-08  9:02 ` [PATCH 2/6] tracing, vmscan: Add trace events for LRU page isolation Mel Gorman
2010-06-08  9:02 ` [PATCH 3/6] tracing, vmscan: Add trace event when a page is written Mel Gorman
2010-06-08  9:02 ` [PATCH 4/6] tracing, vmscan: Add a postprocessing script for reclaim-related ftrace events Mel Gorman
2010-06-08  9:02 ` [PATCH 5/6] vmscan: Write out ranges of pages contiguous to the inode where possible Mel Gorman
2010-06-11  6:10   ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-11 12:49     ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-11 19:07       ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-11 20:44         ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-11 21:33           ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-12  0:17             ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-11 16:27     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-08  9:02 ` [PATCH 6/6] vmscan: Do not writeback pages in direct reclaim Mel Gorman
2010-06-11  6:17   ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-11 12:54     ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-11 16:25     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-11 17:43       ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-11 17:49         ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-11 18:13           ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-08  9:08 ` [RFC PATCH 0/6] Do not call ->writepage[s] from direct reclaim and use a_ops->writepages() where possible Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-08  9:28   ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-11 16:29     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-11 18:15       ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-11 19:12       ` Chris Mason
2010-06-09  2:52 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-06-09  9:52   ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-10  0:38     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-06-10  1:10       ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-10  1:29         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-06-11  5:57 ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-11 12:33   ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-11 16:30     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-11 18:17       ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-15 14:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-06-15 14:11   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-06-15 14:22     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-06-15 14:43       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 15:08         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-06-15 15:25           ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 15:45             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-06-15 16:26               ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 16:31                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-06-15 16:49                 ` Rik van Riel
2010-06-15 16:54                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 19:13                     ` Rik van Riel
2010-06-15 19:17                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 19:44                         ` Chris Mason
2010-06-16  7:57                       ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-16 16:59                         ` Rik van Riel
2010-06-16 17:04                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-06-15 16:54                   ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-15 15:38           ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-15 16:14             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-06-15 16:22               ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 16:30               ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-15 16:34                 ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-15 16:54                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-06-15 16:35                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 16:37                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-06-15 17:43                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 16:45               ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 14:51   ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-15 14:55     ` Rik van Riel
2010-06-15 15:08     ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-15 15:10       ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-15 16:28     ` Andrea Arcangeli

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