From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Swap progress accounting
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:26:13 -0300 (BRST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0107231425190.20326-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010723061512.A21588@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Currently, calling swap_out() on a zone doesn't count progress, and the
> result can be that you swap_out() a lot of pages, and still return "no
> progress possible" to try_to_free_pages(), which in turn makes a GFP_KERNEL
> allocation fail (and that can kill init).
"makes GFP_KERNEL allocation fail" ?!?!?!
Who the fuck broke __alloc_pages() while I wasn't looking ?
Why don't you fix __alloc_pages() instead ?
Rik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-23 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-23 10:15 Arjan van de Ven
2001-07-23 17:26 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2001-07-23 18:35 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-23 18:41 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-07-23 18:46 ` Rik van Riel
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