From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:07:09 -0400
From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid !__GFP_IO allocations to eat from memory
 reservations
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To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Thursday, June 14, 2001 09:59:43 AM -0300 Marcelo Tosatti
<marcelo@conectiva.com.br> wrote:

> 
> In pre3, GFP_BUFFER allocations can eat from the "emergency" memory
> reservations in case try_to_free_pages() fails for those allocations in
> __alloc_pages(). 
> 
> 
> Here goes the (tested) patch to fix that: 

I started testing this because I expected problems under load with reiserfs
on it.  No deadlocks yet though...I owe Marcelo a beer ;-)

-chris

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