page table fault, which should map kernel virtual address space

2010-09-20 Thread Svatopluk Kraus
Hallo, this is about 'NKPT' definition, 'kernel_map' submaps, and 'vm_map_findspace' function. Variable 'kernel_map' is used to manage kernel virtual address space. When 'vm_map_findspace' function deals with 'kernel_map' then 'pmap_growkernel' function is called. At least in 'i386' architectur

Re: [PATCH] Add -lssp_nonshared to GCC's LIB_SPEC unconditionally

2010-09-20 Thread Jeremie Le Hen
Kostik, On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 09:41:46PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:14:06AM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > > Hi Alexander, > > > > On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 09:14:46PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 11:46:51AM -0400, Alexander Kabaev wro

Re: zfs + uma

2010-09-20 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 19/09/2010 11:27 Jeff Roberson said the following: > On Sun, 19 Sep 2010, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> on 19/09/2010 01:16 Jeff Roberson said the following: >>> Additionally we could make a last ditch flush mechanism that runs on each >>> cpu in >>> turn and flushes some or all of the buckets in p

Re: [PATCH] Add -lssp_nonshared to GCC's LIB_SPEC unconditionally

2010-09-20 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 06:29:25PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > Kostik, > > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 09:41:46PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:14:06AM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > > > Hi Alexander, > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 09:14:46PM +0200, Jeremie Le H

Re: zfs + uma

2010-09-20 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 19/09/2010 11:42 Andriy Gapon said the following: > on 19/09/2010 11:27 Jeff Roberson said the following: >> I don't like this because even with very large buffers you can still have >> high >> enough turnover to require per-cpu caching. Kip specifically added UMA >> support >> to address thi

Re: zfs + uma

2010-09-20 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 19/09/2010 01:16 Jeff Roberson said the following: > Additionally we could make a last ditch flush mechanism that runs on each cpu > in How would you qualify a "last ditch" trigger? Would this be called from "standard" vm_lowmem look or would there be some extra check for even more severe memo