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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>,
	Valerie Henson <val@vahconsulting.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>, Ric Wheeler <ric@emc.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Parallelize IO for e2fsck
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:01:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080128200105.GA4719@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080128195633.GB20528@mit.edu>

On Mon 2008-01-28 14:56:33, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 07:30:05PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > 
> > As user pages are always in highmem, this should be easy to decide:
> > only send SIGDANGER when highmem is full. (Yes, there are
> > inodes/dentries/file descriptors in lowmem, but I doubt apps will
> > respond to SIGDANGER by closing files).
> 
> Good point; for a system with at least (say) 2GB of memory, that
> definitely makes sense.  For a system with less than 768 megs of
> memory (how quaint, but it wasn't that long ago this was a lot of
> memory :-), there wouldn't *be* any memory in highmem at all....

Ok, so it is 'send SIGDANGER when all zones are low', because user
allocations can go from all zones (unless you have something really
exotic, I'm not sure if that is true on huge NUMA  machines & similar).

							Pavel
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-28 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <70b6f0bf0801161322k2740a8dch6a0d6e6e112cd2d0@mail.gmail.com>
2008-01-16 21:30 ` [RFC] Parallelize IO for e2fsck Valerie Henson
2008-01-18  1:15   ` David Chinner
2008-01-18  1:43     ` Valerie Henson
2008-01-21 23:00   ` Andreas Dilger
2008-01-22  3:38     ` David Chinner
2008-01-22  4:17       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-22  7:00         ` Andreas Dilger
2008-01-22 13:05           ` Alan Cox
2008-01-22 14:40           ` Theodore Tso
2008-01-22 14:57             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2008-01-28 19:30             ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-28 19:56               ` Theodore Tso
2008-01-28 20:01                 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-02-03 13:51                   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-29  8:29                 ` david
2008-01-22  7:05       ` Andreas Dilger
2008-01-22  8:16         ` David Chinner
2008-01-22 17:42       ` Bryan Henderson
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     [not found] ` <9Mo9w-7Ws-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <9OdWm-7uN-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <9Oi9A-5EJ-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <9OiMg-6IC-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]         ` <9OlqL-2xG-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]           ` <9Orda-3ub-45@gated-at.bofh.it>
2008-01-24 17:32             ` Bodo Eggert
2008-01-24 22:07               ` Andreas Dilger
2008-01-24 23:08               ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-24 23:40                 ` Theodore Tso
2008-01-25  0:25                   ` Zan Lynx
2008-01-25 11:09                     ` Andreas Dilger
2008-01-26  0:55                       ` Zan Lynx
2008-01-26 11:56                         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-26 12:32                   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
     [not found] <alpine.LSU.0.999.0801252338460.26260@be1.lrz>
2008-01-26  1:55 ` Bryan Henderson
2008-01-26 13:21   ` Theodore Tso

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