From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, dgc@sgi.com, Simon.Derr@bull.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/03] Cpuset: might sleep checking zones allowed fix
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 18:26:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060518182655.2d6a94e2.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605181803090.22861@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Christoph wrote:
> I think this is another case demonstrating that alloc_pages() behavior is
> way too complex right now.
One could certainly use this thread as evidence to support that case ;).
And your thoughts are all the more reason to fix this bug we have now,
with a small, focused fix (to avoid possibly sleeping with interrupts
off), and then take our time with any rework, perhaps in the context of
the bigger changes you, Dave and Nick were discussing.
Good luck.
--
I won't rest till it's the best ...
Programmer, Linux Scalability
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.925.600.0401
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-19 1:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-18 4:35 Paul Jackson
2006-05-18 4:36 ` [PATCH 02/03] Cpuset: update cpuset_zones_allowed comment Paul Jackson
2006-05-18 4:36 ` [PATCH 03/03] Cpuset: might_sleep_if check in cpuset_zones_allowed Paul Jackson
2006-05-18 5:25 ` [PATCH 01/03] Cpuset: might sleep checking zones allowed fix Andrew Morton
2006-05-18 5:47 ` David Chinner
2006-05-19 0:48 ` Paul Jackson
2006-05-19 2:21 ` David Chinner
2006-05-19 3:12 ` Paul Jackson
2006-05-19 8:54 ` David Chinner
2006-05-19 0:58 ` Paul Jackson
2006-05-19 1:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-05-19 1:26 ` Paul Jackson [this message]
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