From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
Mark Hemment <markhe@veritas.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allocation looping + kswapd CPU cycles
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 21:52:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010510215241.S16590@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105101545140.19732-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>; from marcelo@conectiva.com.br on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:49:05PM -0300
Hi,
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:49:05PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Back to the main discussion --- I guess we could make __GFP_FAIL (with
> __GFP_WAIT set :)) allocations actually fail if "try_to_free_pages()" does
> not make any progress (ie returns zero). But maybe thats a bit too
> extreme.
That would seem to be a reasonable interpretation of __GFP_FAIL +
__GFP_WAIT, yes.
--Stephen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-10 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-08 11:56 Mark Hemment
2001-05-08 14:54 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-05-08 17:23 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-05-08 19:21 ` Jens Axboe
2001-05-08 20:25 ` David S. Miller
2001-05-09 9:46 ` Mark Hemment
2001-05-09 16:36 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-05-10 8:41 ` Mark Hemment
2001-05-10 16:43 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-05-10 19:52 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-10 18:22 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-05-10 20:19 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-10 18:49 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-05-10 20:52 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2001-05-12 14:56 ` Rik van Riel
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