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Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 21:19:02 -0300 (BRT)
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM tuning patch, take 2
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+               if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO)) == (__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO)) {
+                       int progress = try_to_free_pages(gfp_mask);
+                       if(!progress) {
+                               wakeup_kswapd(1);
+                               goto try_again;
+                       }

You're going to allow GFP_BUFFER allocations to eat from the reserved
queues. Eek. 





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