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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>, Alex Vesker <valex@mellanox.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/9] devlink: Add support for region access
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 11:21:12 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5790065d-1eb3-ceb5-3f3d-17babd7d77c2@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180331155345.GA14758@lunn.ch>

On 3/31/18 9:53 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> I want to be able to login to a customer and accessing this snapshot
>> without any previous configuration from the user and not asking for
>> enabling the feature and then waiting for a repro...this will help
>> debugging issues that are hard to reproduce, I don't see any reason
>> to disable this.
> 
> The likely reality is 99.9% of these snapshots will never be seen or
> used. But they take up memory sitting there doing nothing. And if the
> snapshot is 2GB, that is a lot of memory. I expect a system admin
> wants to be able to choose to enable this feature or not, because of
> that memory. You should also consider implementing the memory pressure
> callbacks, so you can discard snapshots, rather than OOM the machine.
> 

That is exactly my point. Nobody wants one rogue device triggering
snapshots, consuming system resources and with no options to disable it.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-31 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-29 16:07 [PATCH net-next 0/9] devlink: Add support for region access Alex Vesker
2018-03-29 16:07 ` [PATCH net-next 1/9] devlink: Add support for creating and destroying regions Alex Vesker
2018-03-29 16:07 ` [PATCH net-next 2/9] devlink: Add callback to query for snapshot id before snapshot create Alex Vesker
2018-03-29 16:07 ` [PATCH net-next 3/9] devlink: Add support for creating region snapshots Alex Vesker
2018-03-29 16:07 ` [PATCH net-next 4/9] devlink: Add support for region get command Alex Vesker
2018-03-29 16:07 ` [PATCH net-next 5/9] devlink: Extend the support querying for region snapshot IDs Alex Vesker
2018-03-29 16:07 ` [PATCH net-next 6/9] devlink: Add support for region snapshot delete command Alex Vesker
2018-03-29 16:07 ` [PATCH net-next 7/9] devlink: Add support for region snapshot read command Alex Vesker
2018-03-29 16:07 ` [PATCH net-next 8/9] net/mlx4_core: Add health buffer address capability Alex Vesker
2018-03-29 16:07 ` [PATCH net-next 9/9] net/mlx4_core: Add Crdump FW snapshot support Alex Vesker
2018-03-29 17:13 ` [PATCH net-next 0/9] devlink: Add support for region access Andrew Lunn
2018-03-29 18:59   ` Alex Vesker
2018-03-29 19:51     ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-30  5:28       ` Alex Vesker
2018-03-30 14:34         ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-30 16:57           ` David Ahern
2018-03-30 19:39             ` Alex Vesker
2018-03-30 22:26               ` David Ahern
2018-03-31  6:11                 ` Alex Vesker
2018-03-31 15:53                   ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-31 17:21                     ` David Ahern [this message]
2018-04-04 11:07                       ` Alex Vesker
2018-03-30 18:07         ` David Miller
2018-03-30 10:21       ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-30 18:07       ` David Miller
2018-03-29 18:23 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-30  9:51   ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-03-30 10:24     ` Jiri Pirko

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