From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
Mark Hemment <markhe@veritas.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allocation looping + kswapd CPU cycles
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 11:56:20 -0300 (BRST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105121155460.5468-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15096.22053.524498.144383@pizda.ninka.net>
On Tue, 8 May 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
> So instead, you could test for the condition that prevents any
> possible forward progress, no?
if (!order || free_shortage() > 0)
goto try_again;
(which was the experimental patch I discussed with Marcelo)
regards,
Rik
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-12 14:56 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
2001-05-12 14:56 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
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