From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hugo Santos Subject: Re: Regarding offloading IPv6 addrconf and ndisc Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 13:13:01 +0100 Message-ID: <20060801121301.GZ8334@innerghost.net> References: <20060727.183415.104032934.davem@davemloft.net> <200608010231.58339.ak@suse.de> <20060731.174641.99457765.davem@davemloft.net> <1154395467.5170.31.camel@jzny2> <20060801013033.GA1280@gondor.apana.org.au> <1154396860.5170.51.camel@jzny2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="abYdCjSRCBwcb+dP" Cc: Herbert Xu , netdev@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, David Miller , Roland Dreier Return-path: Received: from mail.av.it.pt ([193.136.92.53]:20952 "EHLO av.it.pt") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751263AbWHAMNC (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 08:13:02 -0400 To: Jamal Hadi Salim Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1154396860.5170.51.camel@jzny2> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --abYdCjSRCBwcb+dP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Jamal, > nice to know ;-> At least you can protect some apps if you need to. > Only racoon and quagga are important for me. > But what happens then if you have a beast that just chews memory > forever? I suppose other poor apps will just get shot. You should push QoS and differentiation into the memory-subsystem :-) Give a priority flag to mmap(). It's not simple to degrade existing allocations, but taking into consideration the OOM killer... Hugo --abYdCjSRCBwcb+dP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEz0VN7asb/itUNKwRAl0jAJ9/ja/DUGO+sqOjB/99qQKrT8t2OQCg5B1M 6Ef3Bzeo751KXCgdXkHRKzM= =zNQs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --abYdCjSRCBwcb+dP--