From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from burns.conectiva (burns.conectiva [10.0.0.4]) by perninha.conectiva.com.br (Postfix) with SMTP id 2EAF338CE1 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:26:14 -0300 (EST) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:26:13 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: Swap progress accounting In-Reply-To: <20010723061512.A21588@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release: "we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)" http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/