From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/12] netvm: Allow skb allocation to use PFMEMALLOC reserves
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:44:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110415104401.GC22688@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110414.143335.104052252.davem@davemloft.net>
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 02:33:35PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:41:34 +0100
>
> > +extern int memalloc_socks;
> > +static inline int sk_memalloc_socks(void)
> > +{
> > + return memalloc_socks;
> > +}
> > +
> ...
> > +static DEFINE_MUTEX(memalloc_socks_lock);
> > +int memalloc_socks __read_mostly;
>
> Please use an atomic_t, it has to be more efficient than this mutex
> business.
Will fix.
Thanks.
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Mel Gorman
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-14 10:41 [PATCH 00/12] Swap-over-NBD without deadlocking v1 Mel Gorman
2011-04-14 10:41 ` [PATCH 01/12] mm: Serialize access to min_free_kbytes Mel Gorman
2011-04-14 10:41 ` [PATCH 02/12] mm: sl[au]b: Add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Mel Gorman
2011-04-14 10:41 ` [PATCH 03/12] mm: Introduce __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to emergency reserves Mel Gorman
2011-04-14 10:41 ` [PATCH 04/12] mm: allow PF_MEMALLOC from softirq context Mel Gorman
2011-04-14 10:41 ` [PATCH 05/12] mm: Ignore mempolicies when using ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK Mel Gorman
2011-04-14 10:41 ` [PATCH 06/12] net: Introduce sk_allocation() to allow addition of GFP flags depending on the individual socket Mel Gorman
2011-04-14 10:41 ` [PATCH 07/12] netvm: Allow the use of __GFP_MEMALLOC by specific sockets Mel Gorman
2011-04-14 10:41 ` [PATCH 08/12] netvm: Allow skb allocation to use PFMEMALLOC reserves Mel Gorman
2011-04-14 21:33 ` David Miller
2011-04-15 10:44 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2011-04-14 10:41 ` [PATCH 09/12] netvm: Set PF_MEMALLOC as appropriate during SKB processing Mel Gorman
2011-04-14 10:41 ` [PATCH 10/12] mm: Micro-optimise slab to avoid a function call Mel Gorman
2011-04-14 10:41 ` [PATCH 11/12] nbd: Set SOCK_MEMALLOC for access to PFMEMALLOC reserves Mel Gorman
2011-04-14 10:41 ` [PATCH 12/12] mm: Throttle direct reclaimers if PF_MEMALLOC reserves are low and swap is backed by network storage Mel Gorman
2011-04-18 12:30 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-18 14:04 ` Mel Gorman
2011-04-18 12:32 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-18 14:08 ` Mel Gorman
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