From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com, axboe@kernel.dk, hughd@google.com,
avi@redhat.com, nate@cpanel.net, cl@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dpshah@google.com,
ctalbott@google.com, rni@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] mempool, percpu, blkcg: fix percpu stat allocation and remove stats_lock
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:22:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120223152223.43c72ccb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120223231204.GM22536@google.com>
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:12:04 -0800
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 03:01:23PM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Hmmm... going through the thread again, ah, okay, I forgot about that
> > completely. Yeah, that is an actual problem. Both __GFP_WAIT which
> > isn't GFP_KERNEL and GFP_KERNEL are valid use cases. I guess we'll be
> > building async percpu pool in blkcg then. Great. :(
>
> Vivek, you win. :) Can you please refresh the async alloc patch on top
> of blkcg-stacking branch? I'll rool that into this series and drop
> the mempool stuff.
I forget how those patches work, but they might be vulnerable to the
same issue. If the block layer can handle the failed allocation
attempt and retry at the next I/O event then I guess that would be
acceptable; we'd lose a bit of statistical info occasionally, but who
cares.
But ISTR that we can't handle allocation failures here?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-23 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-23 22:30 [PATCHSET] mempool, percpu, blkcg: fix percpu stat allocation and remove stats_lock Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:30 ` [PATCH 1/8] mempool: factor out mempool_fill() Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:30 ` [PATCH 2/8] mempool: separate out __mempool_create() Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:30 ` [PATCH 3/8] mempool, percpu: implement percpu mempool Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:30 ` [PATCH 4/8] block: fix deadlock through percpu allocation in blk-cgroup Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:30 ` [PATCH 5/8] blkcg: don't use percpu for merged stats Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:30 ` [PATCH 6/8] blkcg: simplify stat reset Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:30 ` [PATCH 7/8] blkcg: restructure blkio_get_stat() Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:30 ` [PATCH 8/8] blkcg: remove blkio_group->stats_lock Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:43 ` [PATCHSET] mempool, percpu, blkcg: fix percpu stat allocation and remove stats_lock Andrew Morton
2012-02-23 23:01 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 23:12 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 23:22 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-02-23 23:24 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-24 14:20 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-25 21:44 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-27 3:11 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-27 9:11 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-27 19:43 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-29 17:36 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-05 22:13 ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-06 21:09 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-06 21:20 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-06 21:34 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-06 21:55 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-07 14:55 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-07 17:05 ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-07 19:13 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-07 19:22 ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-07 19:42 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-07 22:56 ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-07 23:08 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-07 23:15 ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-07 23:05 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-08 17:57 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-08 18:08 ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-08 18:11 ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-08 18:22 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-08 18:27 ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-15 16:48 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-15 16:59 ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-20 11:50 ` Jens Axboe
2012-03-08 20:16 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-08 20:33 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-08 20:35 ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-08 19:06 ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-25 3:44 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-25 21:46 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-25 22:21 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-27 14:25 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-27 14:40 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-05 17:45 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-27 18:22 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-29 19:03 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-05 17:20 ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-05 18:03 ` Vivek Goyal
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