Re: [PATCH 00/40] Swap over Networked storage -v12

2007-05-05 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Fri, 04 May 2007 12:26:51 +0200, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> There is a fundamental deadlock associated with paging; On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 12:27:16PM -0700, David Miller wrote: >> I know you'd really like people like myself to review this work, but a >> set of 40 patches is

Re: [PATCH 00/40] Swap over Networked storage -v12

2007-05-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 12:27:16PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 12:26:51 +0200 > > > There is a fundamental deadlock associated with paging; > > I know you'd really like people like myself to review this work, but a > set of 40 pat

Re: [PATCH 00/40] Swap over Networked storage -v12

2007-05-04 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Daniel Walker wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 12:26 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: 1) introduce the memory reserve and make the SLAB allocator play nice with it. patches 01-10 2) add some needed infrastructure to the network code patches 11-13 3) implement the idea outlined above patch

Re: [PATCH 00/40] Swap over Networked storage -v12

2007-05-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
David Miller wrote: From: Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 21:41:49 +0200 How would you prefer I present these? How about 8 or 9 at a time? You are building infrastructure and therefore you could post them 1 at a time for review since each patch should be able to sta

Re: [PATCH 00/40] Swap over Networked storage -v12

2007-05-04 Thread David Miller
From: Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 21:41:49 +0200 > How would you prefer I present these? How about 8 or 9 at a time? You are building infrastructure and therefore you could post them 1 at a time for review since each patch should be able to stand on it's own. - To u

Re: [PATCH 00/40] Swap over Networked storage -v12

2007-05-04 Thread David Miller
From: "Mike Snitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 14:09:40 -0400 > These suggestions conflict in the case of a large patchset: the second > can't be met if you honor the first (more important suggestion IMHO). > Unless you leave something out... and I can't see the value in leaving >

Re: [PATCH 00/40] Swap over Networked storage -v12

2007-05-04 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 12:27 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 12:26:51 +0200 > > > There is a fundamental deadlock associated with paging; > > I know you'd really like people like myself to review this work, but a > set of 40 patches is

Re: [PATCH 00/40] Swap over Networked storage -v12

2007-05-04 Thread Daniel Walker
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 14:09 -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote: > On 5/4/07, Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 17:38 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > > > > > This is kind of a lot of patches all at once .. Have you release any of > > > > these patch sets prior to this re

Re: [PATCH 00/40] Swap over Networked storage -v12

2007-05-04 Thread David Miller
From: Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 12:26:51 +0200 > There is a fundamental deadlock associated with paging; I know you'd really like people like myself to review this work, but a set of 40 patches is just too much to try and digest at once especially when I have other

Re: [PATCH 00/40] Swap over Networked storage -v12

2007-05-04 Thread Mike Snitzer
On 5/4/07, Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 17:38 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > This is kind of a lot of patches all at once .. Have you release any of > > these patch sets prior to this release ? > > Like the -v12 suggests, this is the 12th posting of this pa

Re: [PATCH 00/40] Swap over Networked storage -v12

2007-05-04 Thread Daniel Walker
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 17:38 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > This is kind of a lot of patches all at once .. Have you release any of > > these patch sets prior to this release ? > > Like the -v12 suggests, this is the 12th posting of this patch set. > Some is the same, some has changed. I c

Re: [PATCH 00/40] Swap over Networked storage -v12

2007-05-04 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 08:22 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 12:26 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > 1) introduce the memory reserve and make the SLAB allocator play nice with > > it. > >patches 01-10 > > > > 2) add some needed infrastructure to the network code > >pa

Re: [PATCH 00/40] Swap over Networked storage -v12

2007-05-04 Thread Daniel Walker
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 12:26 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > 1) introduce the memory reserve and make the SLAB allocator play nice with it. >patches 01-10 > > 2) add some needed infrastructure to the network code >patches 11-13 > > 3) implement the idea outlined above >patches 14-20 >