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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [RFC 4/9] Atomic reclaim: Save irq flags in vmscan.c
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:34:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070814203457.GB22202@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1187121951.5337.4.camel@lappy>

> A much simpler approach to this seems to use threaded interrupts like
> -rt does.

Then the interrupt could potentially stay blocked for very long
waiting for process context to finish its work. Also not good.
Essentially it would be equivalent to cli/sti for interrupts
that need to free memory.

-Andi

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-14 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-14 15:30 [RFC 0/9] Reclaim during GFP_ATOMIC allocs Christoph Lameter
2007-08-14 15:30 ` [RFC 1/9] Allow reclaim via __GFP_NOMEMALLOC reclaim Christoph Lameter
2007-08-14 15:30 ` [RFC 2/9] Use NOMEMALLOC reclaim to allow reclaim if PF_MEMALLOC is set Christoph Lameter
2007-08-18  7:10   ` Pavel Machek
2007-08-20 19:00     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-20 20:17       ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-20 20:27         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-20 21:14           ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-20 21:17             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-21 14:07               ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-21  0:39             ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-21 14:07               ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-23  3:38                 ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-23  9:26                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-23 10:11                     ` Nikita Danilov
2007-08-23 13:58                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-24  4:00                     ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-14 15:30 ` [RFC 3/9] Make cond_rescheds conditional on __GFP_WAIT Christoph Lameter
2007-08-14 15:30 ` [RFC 4/9] Atomic reclaim: Save irq flags in vmscan.c Christoph Lameter
2007-08-14 20:02   ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-14 19:12     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-14 20:05       ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-14 20:34         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-08-14 20:33       ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-14 20:42         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-14 20:44           ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-14 21:15             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-14 21:23               ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-14 21:26                 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-14 21:29                   ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-14 21:37                     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-14 21:44                       ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-14 21:48                         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-14 21:56                           ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-14 22:07                             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-14 22:16                               ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-14 22:20                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-14 22:21                                   ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-14 22:41                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-14 15:30 ` [RFC 5/9] Save irqflags on taking the mapping lock Christoph Lameter
2007-08-14 15:30 ` [RFC 6/9] Disable irqs on taking the private_lock Christoph Lameter
2007-08-14 15:30 ` [RFC 7/9] Save flags in swap.c Christoph Lameter
2007-08-14 15:30 ` [RFC 8/9] Reclaim on an atomic allocation if necessary Christoph Lameter
2007-08-14 15:30 ` [RFC 9/9] Testing: Perform GFP_ATOMIC overallocation Christoph Lameter
2007-08-16  2:49 ` [RFC 0/9] Reclaim during GFP_ATOMIC allocs Nick Piggin
2007-08-16 20:24   ` Christoph Lameter

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