From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 20:48:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK In-Reply-To: <4a5909270708092034yaa0a583w70084ef93266df48@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <20070806102922.907530000@chello.nl> <200708061649.56487.phillips@phunq.net> <4a5909270708080037n32be2a73k5c28d33bb02f770b@mail.gmail.com> <4a5909270708091141tb259eddyb2bba1270751ef1@mail.gmail.com> <4a5909270708091717n2f93fcb5i284d82edfd235145@mail.gmail.com> <4a5909270708092034yaa0a583w70084ef93266df48@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Daniel Phillips Cc: Daniel Phillips , Peter Zijlstra , Matt Mackall , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, David Miller , Andrew Morton , Daniel Phillips List-ID: On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: > If you believe that the deadlock problems we address here can be > better fixed by making reclaim more intelligent then please post a > patch and we will test it. I am highly skeptical, but the proof is in > the patch. Then please test the patch that I posted here earlier to reclaim even if PF_MEMALLOC is set. It may require some fixups but it should address your issues in most vm load situations. -- 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