From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:51:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK In-Reply-To: <200708061148.43870.phillips@phunq.net> Message-ID: References: <20070806102922.907530000@chello.nl> <200708061121.50351.phillips@phunq.net> <200708061148.43870.phillips@phunq.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Daniel Phillips Cc: Peter Zijlstra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, David Miller , Andrew Morton , Daniel Phillips , Pekka Enberg , Matt Mackall , Lee Schermerhorn , Steve Dickson List-ID: On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Monday 06 August 2007 11:42, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > Currently your system likely would have died here, so ending up > > > with a reserve page temporarily on the wrong node is already an > > > improvement. > > > > The system would have died? Why? > > Because a block device may have deadlocked here, leaving the system > unable to clean dirty memory, or unable to load executables over the > network for example. So this is a locking problem that has not been taken care of? -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org