netdev - Re: [PATCH 09/33] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO

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Date:	Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:45:55 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, trond.myklebust@....uio.no
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/33] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 14:52 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 October 2007 03:04, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Change ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK page allocation such that the reserves are system
> > wide - which they are per setup_per_zone_pages_min(), when we scrape the
> > barrel, do it properly.
> >
> 
> IIRC it's actually not too uncommon to have allocations coming here via
> page reclaim. It's not exactly clear that you want to break mempolicies
> at this point.

Hmm, the way I see it is that mempolicies are mainly for user-space
allocations, reserve allocations are always kernel allocations. These
already break mempolicies - for example hardirq context allocations.

Also, as it stands, the reserve is spread out evenly over all
zones/nodes (excluding highmem), so by restricting ourselves to a
subset, we don't have access to the full reserve.


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