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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	mingo@elte.hu, zach.brown@oracle.com, openib-general@openib.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Convert idr's internal locking to _irqsave variant
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:18:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adad5c9rqd5.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1152824747.3024.92.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org

    Arjan> it does get harder if this is needed for your IB device to
    Arjan> do more work, so that your swap device on your IB can take
    Arjan> more IO's to free up ram..

That's the classic problem, but it's more a matter of the consumer
using GFP_NOIO in the right places.

 - R.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-14  0:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-11 20:10 ipoib lockdep warning Zach Brown
2006-07-11 21:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-07-11 21:40   ` Sean Hefty
2006-07-11 21:50     ` [openib-general] " Zach Brown
2006-07-11 22:54 ` Roland Dreier
2006-07-11 23:27   ` Zach Brown
2006-07-11 23:43     ` Roland Dreier
2006-07-11 23:53       ` Zach Brown
2006-07-12  0:06         ` Roland Dreier
2006-07-12  9:38       ` Ingo Molnar
2006-07-12 11:09         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-07-12 16:31           ` [openib-general] " Sean Hefty
2006-07-12 18:56           ` Roland Dreier
2006-07-13 15:55           ` [PATCH] IB/core: use correct gfp_mask in sa_query Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-07-12 19:06         ` [openib-general] ipoib lockdep warning Roland Dreier
2006-07-12 20:45         ` [PATCH] Convert idr's internal locking to _irqsave variant Roland Dreier
2006-07-12 21:14           ` Ingo Molnar
2006-07-13  1:30           ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-13 15:42             ` Roland Dreier
2006-07-13 20:54               ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-13 21:03                 ` Roland Dreier
2006-07-13 21:05                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-14  0:18                     ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2006-07-14  6:20                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-13 21:43                   ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-14  1:08                     ` Roland Dreier
2006-07-14  1:18                       ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-14  1:30                         ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-17 15:57                           ` Roland Dreier
2006-07-12  2:33 ` [openib-general] ipoib lockdep warning Roland Dreier
2006-07-12  6:49   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-12 19:01     ` Roland Dreier

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