From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de, muli@il.ibm.com,
asit.k.mallick@intel.com, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com,
arjan@linux.intel.com, ashok.raj@intel.com, shaohua.li@intel.com,
davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [Intel-IOMMU 02/10] Library routine for pre-allocat pool handling
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 11:47:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706091147.24705.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706081558090.4373@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
> > Now there is a anon dirty limit since a few releases, but I'm not
> > fully convinced it solves the problem completely.
>
> A gut feeling or is there more?
Lots of other subsystem can allocate a lot of memory
and they usually don't cooperate and have similar dirty limit concepts.
So you could run out of usable memory anyways and then have a similar
issue.
For example a flood of network packets could always steal your
GFP_ATOMIC pools very quickly in the background (gigabit or 10gig
can transfer a lot of data very quickly)
Also iirc try_to_free_pages() is not completely fair and might fail
under extreme load for some requesters.
Not requiring memory allocation for any IO would be certainly safer.
Anyways, it's a theoretic question because you can't sleep in
there anyways unless something drastic changes in the driver interfaces.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-09 10:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-06 18:56 [Intel-IOMMU 00/10] Intel IOMMU Support anil.s.keshavamurthy
2007-06-06 18:56 ` [Intel-IOMMU 01/10] DMAR detection and parsing logic anil.s.keshavamurthy
2007-06-06 18:57 ` [Intel-IOMMU 02/10] Library routine for pre-allocat pool handling anil.s.keshavamurthy
2007-06-07 23:27 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-08 18:21 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-08 19:01 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-08 20:12 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-08 20:40 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-06-08 20:44 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-08 22:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-08 22:49 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-08 20:43 ` Andreas Kleen
2007-06-08 20:55 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-08 22:31 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-08 21:20 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-08 21:42 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-08 22:17 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-08 22:18 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-06-08 22:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-08 22:36 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-08 22:56 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-08 22:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-09 9:47 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-06-11 20:44 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-11 21:14 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-11 9:46 ` Ashok Raj
2007-06-11 22:16 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-11 23:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-11 23:52 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-12 0:30 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-12 1:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-12 1:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-12 1:35 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-12 1:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-12 2:08 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-06-13 18:40 ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-13 19:04 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-12 0:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-11 21:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-11 21:40 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-11 22:25 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-11 11:29 ` Ashok Raj
2007-06-11 23:15 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-08 22:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-08 22:45 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-08 22:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-10 16:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-11 16:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-06 18:57 ` [Intel-IOMMU 03/10] PCI generic helper function anil.s.keshavamurthy
2007-06-06 18:57 ` [Intel-IOMMU 04/10] clflush_cache_range now takes size param anil.s.keshavamurthy
2007-06-06 18:57 ` [Intel-IOMMU 05/10] IOVA allocation and management routines anil.s.keshavamurthy
2007-06-07 23:34 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-08 18:25 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-06 18:57 ` [Intel-IOMMU 06/10] Intel IOMMU driver anil.s.keshavamurthy
2007-06-07 23:57 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-08 22:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-13 20:20 ` Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2007-06-06 18:57 ` [Intel-IOMMU 07/10] Intel iommu cmdline option - forcedac anil.s.keshavamurthy
2007-06-07 23:58 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-06 18:57 ` [Intel-IOMMU 08/10] DMAR fault handling support anil.s.keshavamurthy
2007-06-06 18:57 ` [Intel-IOMMU 09/10] Iommu Gfx workaround anil.s.keshavamurthy
2007-06-08 0:01 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-06 18:57 ` [Intel-IOMMU 10/10] Iommu floppy workaround anil.s.keshavamurthy
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