From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: balance_dirty_pages() vs throttle_vm_writeout() deadlock
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:10:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1172499051.6374.56.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1172497438.6374.53.camel@twins>
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 14:43 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> It might, but I'm afraid that the NFS writeout path includes a
> GFP_ATOMIC allocation, in which case this would not suffice.
Bollocks!, GFP_ATOMIC doesn't wait.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-20 15:49 [RFC][PATCH] mm: balance_dirty_pages() vs throttle_vm_writeout() deadlock Peter Zijlstra
2007-02-20 20:00 ` Rik van Riel
2007-02-22 0:07 ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-26 13:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-02-26 14:10 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
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