From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: call into direct reclaim without PF_MEMALLOC set
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:00:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061115140049.c835fbfd.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1163626378.5968.74.camel@twins>
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:32:58 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
> + current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC;
> try_to_free_pages(zones, GFP_NOFS);
> + current->flags &= ~PF_MEMALLOC;
Sometime, later, in a different patch, we might as well suck that into
try_to_free_pages() itself. Along with nice comment explaining
what it means and WARN_ON(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-15 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-15 19:25 Peter Zijlstra
2006-11-15 20:42 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-15 21:23 ` [PATCH] " Peter Zijlstra
2006-11-15 21:32 ` Andrew Morton
[not found] ` <1163625058.5968.64.camel@twins>
[not found] ` <20061115132340.3cbf4008.akpm@osdl.org>
2006-11-15 21:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-11-15 22:00 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-11-15 22:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-15 22:24 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-16 9:52 ` [PATCH] mm: cleanup and document reclaim recursion Peter Zijlstra
2006-11-17 0:16 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-17 8:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-11-17 12:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
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