Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 May 2007 13:44:59 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair |
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On Wed, 16 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > How does all of this interact with > > > > 1. cpusets > > > > 2. dma allocations and highmem? > > > > 3. Containers? > > Much like the normal kmem_cache would do; I'm not changing any of the > page allocation semantics.
So if we run out of memory on a cpuset then network I/O will still fail?
I do not see any distinction between DMA and regular memory. If we need DMA memory to complete the transaction then this wont work?
> But its wanted to try the normal cpu_slab path first to detect that the > situation has subsided and we can resume normal operation.
Is there some indicator somewhere that indicates that we are in trouble? I just see the ranks.
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