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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ethan Solomita <solo@google.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] cpuset write dirty map
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:08:31 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709191006160.10862@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070918191405.d9b43470.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> How hard would it be to handle the allocation failure in a more friendly
> manner?  Say, if the allocation failed then point mapping->dirty_nodes at
> some global all-ones nodemask, and then special-case that nodemask in the
> freeing code?

Ack. However, the situation dirty_nodes == NULL && inode dirty then means 
that unknown nodes are dirty. If we are later are successful with the 
alloc and we know that the pages are dirty in the mapping then the initial 
dirty_nodes must be all ones. If this is the first page to be dirtied then 
we can start with a dirty_nodes mask of all zeros like now.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-19 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-17 21:23 [PATCH 0/6] cpuset aware writeback Ethan Solomita
2007-07-17 21:32 ` [PATCH 1/6] cpuset write dirty map Ethan Solomita
2007-07-17 21:33 ` [PATCH 2/6] cpuset write pdflush nodemask Ethan Solomita
2007-07-17 21:34 ` [PATCH 3/6] cpuset write throttle Ethan Solomita
2007-07-17 21:35 ` [PATCH 4/6] cpuset write vmscan Ethan Solomita
2007-07-17 21:36 ` [PATCH 5/6] cpuset write vm writeout Ethan Solomita
2007-07-17 21:37 ` [PATCH 6/6] cpuset dirty limits Ethan Solomita
2007-07-23 20:18 ` [PATCH 0/6] cpuset aware writeback Christoph Lameter
2007-07-23 21:30   ` Ethan Solomita
2007-07-23 21:53     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-12  1:32 ` Ethan Solomita
2007-09-12  1:36   ` [PATCH 1/6] cpuset write dirty map Ethan Solomita
2007-09-14 23:15     ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-14 23:47       ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-15  0:07         ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-15  0:16           ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-17 18:37             ` Mike Travis
2007-09-17 19:10       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19  0:51       ` Ethan Solomita
2007-09-19  2:14         ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-19 17:08           ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2007-09-19 17:06         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-12  1:38   ` [PATCH 2/6] cpuset write pdflush nodemask Ethan Solomita
2007-09-12  1:39   ` [PATCH 3/6] cpuset write throttle Ethan Solomita
     [not found]     ` <20070914161517.5ea3847f.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-03  0:38       ` Ethan Solomita
2007-10-03 17:46         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-03 20:46           ` Ethan Solomita
2007-10-04  3:56             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04  7:37               ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-04  7:56                 ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-04  8:15                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-04  8:25                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-04  9:06                       ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-04  9:04                     ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-05 19:34                 ` Ethan Solomita
2007-09-12  1:40   ` [PATCH 4/6] cpuset write vmscan Ethan Solomita
2007-09-12  1:41   ` [PATCH 5/6] cpuset write vm writeout Ethan Solomita
2007-09-12  1:42   ` [PATCH 6/6] cpuset dirty limits Ethan Solomita
2007-09-14 23:15     ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-17 19:00       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19  0:23         ` Ethan Solomita

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