From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Edjard Souza Mota <edjard@gmail.com>,
Mauricio Lin <mauriciolin@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: User space out of memory approach
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 05:48:17 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050111074817.GD18796@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050111085803.GF26799@dualathlon.random>
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:58:03AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:44:53AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > I consider the invocation of out_of_memory in the first place. This is
> > the real root of the problems. The ranking is a different playground.
> > Your solution does not solve
> > - invocation madness
> > - reentrancy protection
> > - the ugly mess of timers, counters... in out_of_memory, which aren't
> > neccecary at all
>
> Thomas, you're obviously right, it's not even worth discussing this.
> The 6 patches I posted (and my version is the only one that includes all
> the outstanding fixes) have to be applied. Than we can think about the
> rest.
>
> Rik's two patches (writeback-highmem and writeback_nr_scanned) should be
> applied too since they're obviously right too (and they're completely
> orthogonal with our 6). Rik's 2/2 looked more like an hack and it
> shouldn't be applied.
This patchsets should be in -mm by now? :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-11 10:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-10 21:43 User space out of memory approach Mauricio Lin
2005-01-10 19:20 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-10 19:39 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-10 23:01 ` Mauricio Lin
2005-01-10 22:40 ` Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-10 20:05 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-10 23:17 ` Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-10 23:18 ` Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-10 23:24 ` Mauricio Lin
2005-01-10 23:30 ` Mauricio Lin
2005-01-11 7:47 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-11 0:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-11 2:03 ` Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-11 8:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-11 8:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-11 7:48 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2005-01-11 9:08 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-11 9:19 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-11 9:27 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-11 9:20 ` Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-11 9:30 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-11 9:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-11 10:05 ` Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-11 10:39 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-11 10:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-11 14:56 ` Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-11 15:27 ` Ilias Biris
2005-01-11 10:00 ` Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-11 10:36 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-11 16:32 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-11 19:16 ` Ilias Biris
2005-01-11 20:46 ` Ilias Biris
2005-01-11 20:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-12 9:31 ` Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-12 11:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-12 12:12 ` Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-13 15:36 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-16 10:06 ` Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-16 21:10 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-17 10:16 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-11 21:35 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-01-11 20:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-11 7:42 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-11 10:51 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-11 11:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-11 8:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-21 21:27 ` Mauricio Lin
2005-01-21 21:45 ` Mauricio Lin
2005-01-22 3:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-25 21:13 ` Mauricio Lin
2005-01-25 21:39 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-26 0:11 ` Mauricio Lin
2005-01-26 0:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-26 14:03 ` Mauricio Lin
2005-01-27 18:54 ` Mauricio Lin
2005-01-27 22:11 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-27 22:29 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-27 22:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-27 23:35 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-28 0:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-28 13:58 ` Mauricio Lin
2005-01-28 15:21 ` Mauricio Lin
2005-01-28 15:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-26 7:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-01-22 3:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
[not found] <fa.lcmt90h.1j1scpn@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.ht4gei4.1g5odia@ifi.uio.no>
2005-01-16 16:28 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-01-18 13:15 ` Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-19 6:18 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-01-20 3:20 ` Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-20 5:00 ` Bodo Eggert
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