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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org, rientjes@google.com, npiggin@suse.de,
menage@google.com, dfults@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
containers@lists.osdl.org, travis@sgi.com, steiner@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] cpuset writeback throttling
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:28:31 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0811051526050.5132@quilx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081105125603.36d0c222.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> See, here's my problem: we have a pile of new code which fixes some
> problem. But the problem seems to be fairly small - it only affects a
> small number of sophisticated users and they already have workarounds
> in place.
Well yes... Great situation with those workarounds.
> So the world wouldn't end if we just didn't merge it. Those users
> stick with their workarounds and the kernel remains simpler and
> smaller.
>
> How do we work out which is the best choice here? I don't have enough
> information to do this.
Not sure how to treat this. I am not involved with large NUMA at this
point. So the people who are interested need to speak up if they want
this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-05 21:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-30 19:23 David Rientjes
2008-10-30 19:23 ` [patch 1/7] cpusets: add dirty map to struct address_space David Rientjes
2008-11-04 21:09 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-04 21:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-04 21:42 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-30 19:23 ` [patch 2/7] pdflush: allow the passing of a nodemask parameter David Rientjes
2008-10-30 19:23 ` [patch 3/7] mm: make page writeback obey cpuset constraints David Rientjes
2008-10-30 19:23 ` [patch 4/7] mm: cpuset aware reclaim writeout David Rientjes
2008-10-30 19:23 ` [patch 5/7] mm: throttle writeout with cpuset awareness David Rientjes
2008-10-30 19:23 ` [patch 6/7] cpusets: per cpuset dirty ratios David Rientjes
2008-10-30 19:23 ` [patch 7/7] cpusets: update documentation for writeback throttling David Rientjes
2008-10-30 21:08 ` [patch 0/7] cpuset " Dave Chinner
2008-10-30 21:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-10-30 22:03 ` Dave Chinner
2008-10-31 13:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-10-31 16:36 ` David Rientjes
2008-11-04 20:47 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-04 20:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-04 20:58 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-04 21:10 ` David Rientjes
2008-11-04 21:16 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-04 21:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-04 21:50 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-04 22:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-04 22:35 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-04 22:52 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-04 23:36 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-05 1:31 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-11-05 3:09 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-05 2:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-05 3:05 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-05 4:31 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-11-10 9:02 ` Andrea Righi
2008-11-10 10:02 ` David Rientjes
2008-11-05 13:52 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-05 18:41 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-05 20:21 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-05 20:31 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-05 20:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-05 20:56 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-05 21:28 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2008-11-05 21:55 ` Paul Menage
2008-11-05 22:04 ` David Rientjes
2008-11-06 1:34 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-11-06 20:35 ` David Rientjes
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