Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936162AbXHHSGV (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 14:06:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763689AbXHHSGM (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 14:06:12 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:38462 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763044AbXHHSGL (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 14:06:11 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 11:06:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Peter Zijlstra cc: Daniel Phillips , Matt Mackall , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, David Miller , Andrew Morton , Daniel Phillips , Pekka Enberg , Lee Schermerhorn , Steve Dickson Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK In-Reply-To: <1186557865.7182.86.camel@twins> Message-ID: References: <20070806102922.907530000@chello.nl> <200708061559.41680.phillips@phunq.net> <200708061649.56487.phillips@phunq.net> <1186557865.7182.86.camel@twins> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 533 Lines: 12 On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Christoph, does this all explain the situation? Sort of. I am still very sceptical that this will work reliably. I'd rather look at alternate solution like fixing reclaim. Could you have a look at Andrew's and my comments on the slub patch? - 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/