From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: balance_dirty_pages() vs throttle_vm_writeout() deadlock From: Peter Zijlstra In-Reply-To: <1172497438.6374.53.camel@twins> References: <1171986565.23046.5.camel@twins> <20070221160757.2183d23f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1172497438.6374.53.camel@twins> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:10:51 +0100 Message-Id: <1172499051.6374.56.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Trond Myklebust List-ID: On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 14:43 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > It might, but I'm afraid that the NFS writeout path includes a > GFP_ATOMIC allocation, in which case this would not suffice. Bollocks!, GFP_ATOMIC doesn't wait. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org