linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705151457060.3155@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Tue, 15 May 2007 15:02:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
cc:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Daniel Phillips <phillips@...gle.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair

On Tue, 15 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> How about something like this; it seems to sustain a little stress.

Argh again mods to kmem_cache.

Could we do this with a new slab page flag? F.e. SlabEmergPool.


in alloc_slab() do

if (is_emergency_pool_page(page)) {
	SetSlabDebug(page);
	SetSlabEmerg(page);
}

So now you can intercept allocs to the SlabEmerg slab in __slab_alloc 

debug:

if (SlabEmergPool(page)) {
	if (mem_no_longer_critical()) {
		/* Avoid future trapping */
		ClearSlabDebug(page);
		ClearSlabEmergPool(page);
	} else
	if (process_not_allowed_this_memory()) {
		do_something_bad_to_the_caller();
	} else {
		/* Allocation permitted */
	}
}

....

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