From: Dmitry Yusupov <dmitry_yus@yahoo.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
mpm@selenic.com, andrea@suse.de, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu,
open-iscsi@googlegroups.com, ksummit-2005-discuss@thunk.org,
netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2005-discuss] Summary of 2005 Kernel Summit Proposed Topics
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:19:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1112116762.5088.65.camel@beastie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050329152008.GD63268@muc.de>
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 17:20 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > In your scenario, if we're out of memory and the system needs several
> > ACK's to the swap device for pages to be released to the system, I don't
> > see how we make forward progress since without a reserved resource to
> > allocate from how does the ack make it up the stack to the storage
> > driver layer?
>
> Typically because the RX ring of the driver has some packets left.
You can not be sure. Some NICs has very small number for possible HW
ring buffers. Under OOM pressure, most likely, host will be so slow that
resources might not just be returned back to the HW in time. Though it
depends on link-layer driver implementation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-29 17:19 UTC|newest]
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2005-03-27 5:48 ` [Ksummit-2005-discuss] Summary of 2005 Kernel Summit Proposed Topics Matt Mackall
2005-03-27 6:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-03-27 6:38 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-27 14:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-03-27 6:33 ` Dmitry Yusupov
2005-03-27 6:46 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-27 7:05 ` Dmitry Yusupov
2005-03-27 7:57 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-27 8:18 ` Dmitry Yusupov
2005-03-27 18:26 ` Mike Christie
2005-03-27 18:31 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-27 19:58 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-27 21:49 ` Dmitry Yusupov
2005-03-27 18:47 ` Dmitry Yusupov
2005-03-27 21:14 ` Alex Aizman
[not found] ` <20050327211506.85EDA16022F6@mx1.suse.de>
2005-03-28 0:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-03-28 3:54 ` Rik van Riel
2005-03-28 4:34 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-28 4:50 ` Rik van Riel
2005-03-28 6:58 ` Alex Aizman
2005-03-28 16:12 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-28 16:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-03-28 16:24 ` Rik van Riel
2005-03-29 15:11 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-29 15:29 ` Rik van Riel
2005-03-29 17:03 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-28 16:28 ` James Bottomley
2005-03-29 15:20 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-29 15:56 ` James Bottomley
2005-03-29 17:19 ` Dmitry Yusupov [this message]
2005-03-29 21:08 ` jamal
2005-03-29 22:00 ` Rik van Riel
2005-03-29 22:17 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-29 23:30 ` jamal
2005-03-29 23:00 ` jamal
2005-03-29 23:25 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-30 0:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-03-30 15:24 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-29 22:03 ` Rick Jones
2005-03-29 23:13 ` jamal
2005-03-30 2:28 ` Alex Aizman
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2005-03-30 17:16 ` Grant Grundler
2005-03-30 18:46 ` Dmitry Yusupov
2005-03-30 15:22 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-30 15:33 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-03-30 15:38 ` Rik van Riel
2005-03-30 15:39 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-30 15:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-03-30 15:50 ` Rik van Riel
2005-03-30 16:04 ` James Bottomley
2005-03-30 17:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-03-30 16:02 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-30 16:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-03-30 16:55 ` jamal
2005-03-30 18:42 ` Rik van Riel
2005-03-30 19:28 ` Alex Aizman
2005-03-31 11:41 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-31 12:12 ` Rik van Riel
2005-03-31 18:59 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-31 19:04 ` Rik van Riel
2005-03-31 15:35 ` Grant Grundler
2005-03-31 19:15 ` Alex Aizman
2005-03-31 19:34 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-31 19:39 ` Rik van Riel
2005-03-31 11:45 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-31 11:50 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-31 17:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-03-31 22:05 ` Dmitry Yusupov
2005-03-30 17:24 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-30 17:39 ` Dmitry Yusupov
2005-03-30 20:10 ` Mike Christie
2005-03-30 17:07 ` Grant Grundler
2005-03-30 5:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-03-28 16:37 ` Dmitry Yusupov
2005-03-28 19:45 ` Roland Dreier
2005-03-28 20:32 ` Topic: Remote DMA network technologies Gerrit Huizenga
2005-03-28 20:36 ` Roland Dreier
[not found] ` <1112042936.5088.22.camel@beastie>
2005-03-28 22:32 ` [Ksummit-2005-discuss] Summary of 2005 Kernel Summit Proposed Topics Benjamin LaHaise
2005-03-29 3:19 ` Linux support for RDMA (was: [Ksummit-2005-discuss] Summary of 2005 Kernel Summit Proposed Topics) Roland Dreier
2005-03-30 16:00 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-03-31 1:08 ` Linux support for RDMA H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-02 18:08 ` [Ksummit-2005-discuss] Summary of 2005 Kernel Summit Proposed Topics Dmitry Yusupov
2005-04-02 19:13 ` Ming Zhang
2005-04-04 6:31 ` Grant Grundler
2005-04-04 18:57 ` Rick Jones
2005-03-29 3:14 ` Linux support for RDMA (was: [Ksummit-2005-discuss] Summary of 2005 Kernel Summit Proposed Topics) Roland Dreier
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2005-03-27 21:18 ` [Ksummit-2005-discuss] Summary of 2005 Kernel Summit Proposed Topics Alex Aizman
2005-03-27 21:53 Alex Aizman
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