Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262702AbVAKKvr (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2005 05:51:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262710AbVAKKvr (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2005 05:51:47 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:28553 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262702AbVAKKvk (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2005 05:51:40 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 05:48:17 -0200 From: Marcelo Tosatti To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Edjard Souza Mota , Mauricio Lin , LKML , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: User space out of memory approach Message-ID: <20050111074817.GD18796@logos.cnet> References: <3f250c71050110134337c08ef0@mail.gmail.com> <20050110192012.GA18531@logos.cnet> <4d6522b9050110144017d0c075@mail.gmail.com> <20050110200514.GA18796@logos.cnet> <1105403747.17853.48.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <4d6522b90501101803523eea79@mail.gmail.com> <1105433093.17853.78.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <20050111085803.GF26799@dualathlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050111085803.GF26799@dualathlon.random> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1223 Lines: 26 On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:58:03AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:44:53AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > I consider the invocation of out_of_memory in the first place. This is > > the real root of the problems. The ranking is a different playground. > > Your solution does not solve > > - invocation madness > > - reentrancy protection > > - the ugly mess of timers, counters... in out_of_memory, which aren't > > neccecary at all > > Thomas, you're obviously right, it's not even worth discussing this. > The 6 patches I posted (and my version is the only one that includes all > the outstanding fixes) have to be applied. Than we can think about the > rest. > > Rik's two patches (writeback-highmem and writeback_nr_scanned) should be > applied too since they're obviously right too (and they're completely > orthogonal with our 6). Rik's 2/2 looked more like an hack and it > shouldn't be applied. This patchsets should be in -mm by now? :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/