Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755495AbXHJDec (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 23:34:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751349AbXHJDeX (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 23:34:23 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.181]:47398 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751265AbXHJDeW (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 23:34:22 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Ccn8wLCPB0aZ3JgJgbwego75y9ylko+3KIu7k+CF7Jd7wLAZj5c7zuiYnJ7G8Fi+cGpZH4CKdWBTc8gfpIQbM/slu9r/veZtSLTy9b8Ts61UFEWMQpoB/gRASWF2MBZQQ5HxUWImmtSYXUMGP2Mb3gHOvkjFmlrWsr8qe97bLOs= Message-ID: <4a5909270708092034yaa0a583w70084ef93266df48@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 23:34:20 -0400 From: "Daniel Phillips" To: "Christoph Lameter" Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK Cc: "Daniel Phillips" , "Peter Zijlstra" , "Matt Mackall" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, "David Miller" , "Andrew Morton" , "Daniel Phillips" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070806102922.907530000@chello.nl> <200708061649.56487.phillips@phunq.net> <4a5909270708080037n32be2a73k5c28d33bb02f770b@mail.gmail.com> <4a5909270708091141tb259eddyb2bba1270751ef1@mail.gmail.com> <4a5909270708091717n2f93fcb5i284d82edfd235145@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 946 Lines: 25 On 8/9/07, Christoph Lameter wrote: > The allocations problems that this patch addresses can be fixed by making reclaim > more intelligent. If you believe that the deadlock problems we address here can be better fixed by making reclaim more intelligent then please post a patch and we will test it. I am highly skeptical, but the proof is in the patch. > If we can reclaim in an emergency even in ATOMIC contexts then things get much > easier. It is already easy, and it is already fixed in this patch series. Sure, we can pare these patches down a little more, but you are going to have a really hard time coming up with something simpler that actually works. Regards, Daniel - 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/