From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Daniel Phillips <phillips@google.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
riel@redhat.com, tgraf@suug.ch, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/9] deadlock prevention core
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 07:03:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1155531835.5696.103.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060813215853.0ed0e973.akpm@osdl.org>
On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 21:58 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 06:40:53 +0200
> Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
>
> > Testcase:
> >
> > Mount an NBD device as sole swap device and mmap > physical RAM, then
> > loop through touching pages only once.
>
> Fix: don't try to swap over the network. Yes, there may be some scenarios
> where people have no local storage, but it's reasonable to expect anyone
> who is using Linux as an "enterprise storage platform" to stick a local
> disk on the thing for swap.
I wish you were right, however there seems to be a large demand to go
diskless and swap over iSCSI because disks seem to be the nr. 1 failing
piece of hardware in systems these days.
> That leaves MAP_SHARED, but mm-tracking-shared-dirty-pages.patch will fix
> that, will it not?
Will makes it less likely. One can still have memory pressure, the
remaining bits of memory can still get stuck in socket queues for
blocked processes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-14 5:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 140+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-08 19:33 [RFC][PATCH 0/9] Network receive deadlock prevention for NBD Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-08 19:33 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/9] pfn_to_kaddr() for UML Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-08 19:33 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/9] deadlock prevention core Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-08 20:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-08 21:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-09 1:33 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-08-09 1:38 ` David Miller
2006-08-08 21:17 ` Thomas Graf
2006-08-09 1:34 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-08-09 1:39 ` David Miller
2006-08-09 5:47 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-08-09 13:19 ` Thomas Graf
2006-08-09 14:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-09 16:18 ` Thomas Graf
2006-08-09 16:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-10 0:01 ` David Miller
2006-08-09 23:58 ` David Miller
2006-08-10 6:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-11 4:24 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-13 21:22 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-08-13 23:49 ` David Miller
2006-08-14 1:15 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-08-11 2:37 ` Rik van Riel
2006-08-13 22:05 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-08-13 23:55 ` David Miller
2006-08-14 1:31 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-08-14 1:53 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-14 4:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-14 4:58 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-14 5:03 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2006-08-14 5:22 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-14 6:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-14 7:07 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-14 8:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-14 8:25 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-14 8:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-14 8:33 ` David Miller
2006-08-17 4:27 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-08-14 7:17 ` Neil Brown
2006-08-14 7:31 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-17 3:58 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-08-17 5:57 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-17 23:53 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-08-18 0:24 ` Rik van Riel
2006-08-18 0:35 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-08-18 1:14 ` Neil Brown
2006-08-18 6:05 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-18 21:22 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-08-18 22:34 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-18 23:44 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-08-19 2:44 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-19 4:14 ` Network receive stall avoidance (was [PATCH 2/9] deadlock prevention core) Daniel Phillips
2006-08-19 7:28 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-19 15:06 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/9] deadlock prevention core Rik van Riel
2006-08-20 1:33 ` Andre Tomt
2006-08-19 16:53 ` Ray Lee
2006-08-21 13:27 ` Philip R. Auld
2006-08-25 10:47 ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-21 13:38 ` Jens Axboe
2006-08-08 22:10 ` David Miller
2006-08-09 1:35 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-08-09 1:41 ` David Miller
2006-08-09 5:44 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-08-09 7:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
[not found] ` <42414.81.207.0.53.1155080443.squirrel@81.207.0.53>
2006-08-09 0:25 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-08-09 12:02 ` Indan Zupancic
2006-08-09 12:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-09 13:48 ` Indan Zupancic
2006-08-09 14:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-09 18:34 ` Indan Zupancic
2006-08-09 19:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-09 20:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-10 1:21 ` Indan Zupancic
2006-08-09 16:05 ` -v2 " Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-08 19:33 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/9] e1000 driver conversion Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-08 20:50 ` Auke Kok
2006-08-08 20:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-08 22:32 ` David Miller
2006-08-08 22:42 ` Auke Kok
2006-08-08 19:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/9] e100 " Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-08 20:13 ` Auke Kok
2006-08-08 20:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-08 19:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/9] r8169 " Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-08 19:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/9] tg3 " Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-08 19:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 7/9] UML eth " Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-08 19:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 8/9] 3c59x " Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-08 23:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-09 5:51 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-08-09 5:55 ` David Miller
2006-08-09 6:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-09 7:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-09 7:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-13 19:38 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-08-13 19:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-08 19:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 9/9] deadlock prevention for NBD Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-09 5:46 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/9] Network receive " Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-09 5:52 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-08-09 5:56 ` David Miller
2006-08-09 5:53 ` David Miller
2006-08-09 5:55 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-09 12:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-09 13:07 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-09 13:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-09 19:29 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-09 23:54 ` David Miller
2006-08-10 6:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-13 20:16 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-08-14 5:13 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-14 6:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-14 6:54 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-17 4:49 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-08-17 4:48 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-08-17 5:36 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-17 18:01 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-08-17 18:42 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-17 19:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-17 19:48 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-17 23:24 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-08-18 7:16 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-12 3:42 ` Rik van Riel
2006-08-12 8:47 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-12 9:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-12 9:37 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-12 10:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-12 10:42 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-12 10:51 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-12 11:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-12 11:53 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-13 0:46 ` David Miller
2006-08-13 1:11 ` Rik van Riel
2006-08-12 14:40 ` Rik van Riel
2006-08-12 14:49 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-12 14:56 ` Rik van Riel
2006-08-12 15:08 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-12 15:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-14 0:56 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-08-13 0:46 ` David Miller
2006-08-13 9:06 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-13 9:52 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-15 19:17 ` Pavel Machek
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