Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 May 2007 10:29:06 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair |
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On Thu, 17 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> I'm really not seeing why you're making such a fuzz about it; normally > when you push the system this hard we're failing allocations left right > and center too. Its just that the block IO path has some mempools which > allow it to write out some (swap) pages and slowly get back to sanity.
I am weirdly confused by these patches. Among other things you told me that the performance does not matter since its never (or rarely) being used (why do it then?). Then we do these strange swizzles with reserve slabs that may contain an indeterminate amount of objects.
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