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From: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] module, fix percpu reserved memory exhaustion
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:29:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50F41639.2010305@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pq1byzum.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>



On 01/11/2013 08:06 PM, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> writes:
>> On 01/10/2013 10:48 PM, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> The timing were similar.  I didn't see any huge delays, etc.  Can the
>> relocations really cause a long delay?  I thought we were pretty much writing
>> values to memory...
> 
> For x86 that's true, but look at what ppc64 has to do for example.  I'm
> guessing you don't have a giant Nvidia proprietary driver module
> loading, either.

Ah -- I see.  I hadn't thought much about the other arches and I see what ppc64
does ...

> 
>> [I should point out that I'm booting a 32 physical/64 logical, with 64GB of memory]
> 
> I figured it had to be something big ;)

:)  Imagine what happens at 4096 cpus (SGI territory).  I'm wondering about that
kvm commit.  Maybe the systemd/udev rule needs to be rewritten to avoid a 'kvm
loading flood' during boot ... I'll talk with Kay Sievers about it to see if
there's a way around that.

> 
> OTOH, Tested-by: means it actually fixed someone's problem.

Got it.  For the record over-the-weekend testing didn't show any bizarre
results.  The boot times were all around 20-23 seconds.

Tested-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>

P.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-14 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-10  2:41 [PATCH] module, fix percpu reserved memory exhaustion Prarit Bhargava
2013-01-11  3:48 ` Rusty Russell
2013-01-11 14:16   ` Prarit Bhargava
2013-01-12  1:06     ` Rusty Russell
2013-01-14 14:29       ` Prarit Bhargava [this message]
2013-01-14 17:18       ` Tejun Heo

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