On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 13:54 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 22:25 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > What I'm saying is that the slab allocator slowpath should always
> > just check watermarks against the current task. Instead of this
> > ->reserve stuff.
>
> So what you say is to
On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 22:25 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 October 2007 23:17, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 21:46 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> > > And I'd prevent these ones from doing so.
> > >
> > > Without keeping track of "reserve" pages, which doesn't feel
> >
On Wednesday 31 October 2007 23:17, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 21:46 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > And I'd prevent these ones from doing so.
> >
> > Without keeping track of "reserve" pages, which doesn't feel
> > too clean.
>
> The problem with that is that once a slab was allo
On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 21:46 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 October 2007 21:42, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 14:37 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 31 October 2007 03:04, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > Restrict objects from reserve slabs (ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK
On Wednesday 31 October 2007 21:42, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 14:37 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 31 October 2007 03:04, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > Restrict objects from reserve slabs (ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS) to allocation
> > > contexts that are entitled to it.
> > >
On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 14:37 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 October 2007 03:04, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Restrict objects from reserve slabs (ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS) to allocation
> > contexts that are entitled to it.
> >
> > Care is taken to only touch the SLUB slow path.
> >
> > This is
On Wednesday 31 October 2007 03:04, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Restrict objects from reserve slabs (ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS) to allocation
> contexts that are entitled to it.
>
> Care is taken to only touch the SLUB slow path.
>
> This is done to ensure reserve pages don't leak out and get consumed.
I th
Restrict objects from reserve slabs (ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS) to allocation
contexts that are entitled to it.
Care is taken to only touch the SLUB slow path.
This is done to ensure reserve pages don't leak out and get consumed.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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