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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: bcrl@redhat.com, hugh@veritas.com, marcelo@conectiva.com.br,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] __free_pages_ok oops
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 23:07:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C6227B7.37BFA2EC@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C621C74.8A005EB6@zip.com.au>, <3C6214F0.A66C89CF@zip.com.au> <20020206.215539.33252283.davem@redhat.com> <3C621C74.8A005EB6@zip.com.au> <20020206.224940.122062252.davem@redhat.com>

"David S. Miller" wrote:
> 
>    From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
>    Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 22:19:32 -0800
> 
>    It's only a problem if this is the final put_page().  In the
>    case of sendfile(), process-context code can be taught to take
>    a temporary reference on the page, and only release it after the network
>    stack is known to have finished with the page. sendfile is synchronous, yes?
> 
> Userspace can return long before the SKBs are free'd up.  That SKB
> free doesn't happen until the ACKs come back from the receiver.

I feel that presence on the lru list should contribute to
page->count.  It seems a bit weird and kludgy that this
is not so.

If we were to do this then would this not fix networking's
problem?  The skb free wouldn't release the page - it would
be left on the LRU with ->count == 1 and kswapd would reap it.

(Says me, hoping that Hugh will code it :))

-

  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-07  7:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-06 19:06 [PATCH] __free_pages_ok oops Hugh Dickins
2002-02-06 19:47 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-06 20:15   ` Hugh Dickins
2002-02-06 21:11     ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-07 20:31       ` Manfred Spraul
2002-02-07  5:09 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-02-07  5:47   ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-07  5:55     ` David S. Miller
2002-02-07  6:19       ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-07  6:49         ` David S. Miller
2002-02-07  7:07           ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-02-07 11:52             ` Hugh Dickins
2002-02-07 12:34             ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-07 12:37               ` David S. Miller
2002-02-07 12:44                 ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-07 13:19                   ` Hugh Dickins
2002-02-07 13:27                     ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-07 13:55                       ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-07 14:28                       ` Hugh Dickins
2002-02-07 14:56                         ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-07 20:21                           ` Hugh Dickins
2002-02-07 20:58                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-07 21:09                           ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-07 22:18                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-07 22:31                               ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-07 23:09                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-07 23:27                                   ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-08 17:46                                     ` Hugh Dickins
2002-02-09 14:14                                       ` Gerd Knorr
2002-02-09 15:47                                         ` arjan
2002-02-09 14:33                                       ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-02-12 20:19                                         ` Hugh Dickins
2002-02-13 18:52                                           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2002-02-14 10:47                                             ` Hugh Dickins
2002-02-14 11:10                                               ` Gerd Knorr
2002-02-14 13:10                                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-14 14:01                                                   ` Hugh Dickins
2002-02-14 15:17                                                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-14 16:27                                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2002-02-25 18:32                                                     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-02-25 19:35                                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2002-02-07  9:48         ` Benjamin LaHaise
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-09  8:52 alad
2002-02-09 10:46 ` Hugh Dickins

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