From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Arjan van de Ven <root@fenrus.demon.nl>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: refill_inactive()
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 12:56:24 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009241253560.2966-100000@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m13d8p5-000OWvC@amadeus.home.nl>
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > shouldnt this be __GFP_WAIT? It's true that __GFP_IO implies __GFP_WAIT
> > (because IO cannot be done without potentially scheduling), so the code is
>
> Is this also true for starting IO ?
yes. ll_rw_block() might block if there are no more request slots left.
Dirty buffer balancing within buffer.c might block as well.
Ingo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-09-24 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-24 9:57 refill_inactive() Ingo Molnar
2000-09-24 10:15 ` refill_inactive() Arjan van de Ven
2000-09-24 10:56 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2000-09-25 14:06 ` refill_inactive() Rik van Riel
2000-09-25 14:35 ` refill_inactive() Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25 16:08 ` refill_inactive() Rik van Riel
2000-09-25 16:17 ` refill_inactive() Linus Torvalds
2000-09-25 16:33 ` refill_inactive() Rik van Riel
2000-09-25 17:45 ` refill_inactive() Stephen C. Tweedie
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