LKML Archive on lore.kernel.org
help / color / mirror / Atom feed
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.


  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

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=Pine.LNX.4.64.0811051526050.5132@quilx.com \
    --to=cl@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=containers@lists.osdl.org \
    --cc=dfults@sgi.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=menage@google.com \
    --cc=npiggin@suse.de \
    --cc=peterz@infradead.org \
    --cc=rientjes@google.com \
    --cc=steiner@sgi.com \
    --cc=travis@sgi.com \
    --subject='Re: [patch 0/7] cpuset writeback throttling' \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).