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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@phunq.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] A clean approach to writeout throttling
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 12:27:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071206122701.85627fb4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200712061204.14854.phillips@phunq.net>

On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 12:04:14 -0800
Daniel Phillips <phillips@phunq.net> wrote:

> Any idea 
> how to extend the accounting idea to all tasks involved in a particular 
> block device stack?

SMOP, I'd have thought.  As long as each piece of code which handles data
for this stack knows that it's handling data for that stack it should be
able to account its memory allocations.

The tricky part will be networking allocations because a NIC can of course
handle data for all sorts of consumers.  But I expect this can be greatly
simplified with a few heuristics - work out how much memory your typical
networking stack will allocate for a frame and tack that onto the total.
Couple of pages worst case..

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-06 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-06  0:03 [RFC] [PATCH] A clean approach to writeout throttling Daniel Phillips
2007-12-06  1:24 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-06  6:21   ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-06  7:31     ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-06  9:48       ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-06 11:55         ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-06 15:52           ` Rik van Riel
2007-12-06 17:34             ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-06 17:48               ` Rik van Riel
2007-12-06 20:04           ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-06 20:27             ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-12-06 21:27               ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-06 21:53     ` Bill Davidsen
2007-12-07  0:04       ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-07  0:29         ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-07  7:13           ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-10  9:20             ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-10 10:47 ` Jens Axboe
2007-12-10 11:23   ` [RFC] [PATCH] A clean aEvgeniy pproach " Daniel Phillips
2007-12-10 11:41     ` Jens Axboe
2007-12-10 12:13       ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-10 12:16         ` Jens Axboe
2007-12-10 12:27           ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-10 12:32             ` Jens Axboe
2007-12-10 13:04               ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-10 13:19                 ` Jens Axboe
2007-12-10 13:26                   ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-10 13:30                     ` Jens Axboe
2007-12-10 13:43                       ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-10 13:53                         ` Jens Axboe
2007-12-10 14:17                           ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-11 13:15                             ` Jens Axboe
2007-12-11 19:38                               ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-11 20:01                                 ` Jens Axboe
2007-12-11 20:11                                   ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-11 20:07                               ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-10 11:33   ` [RFC] [PATCH] A clean approach " Daniel Phillips
2007-12-10 21:31 ` Jonathan Corbet
2007-12-10 22:06   ` Pekka Enberg
2007-12-11  4:21   ` Daniel Phillips

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