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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:45:35 +0100 (CET)
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@e-mind.com>
Subject: Re: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...]
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On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

> If shrink_mmap() can exhaust the timeslice while we are swapping (ie. we

When we are in shrink_mmap() we are _not_ swapping. We are instead looping
in the mem_map pool.

If we instead block in I/O sync, the timeslice should be not touched.

Andrea Arcangeli

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