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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
	arjanv@redhat.com, alan@redhat.com, greg@kroah.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, riel@redhat.com, sct@redhat.com
Subject: Re: PF_MEMALLOC in 2.6
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:50:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200408201650.07513.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040820014005.73383a43@lembas.zaitcev.lan>


> If you let me gloat for a little bit, ub makes this discussion moot
> because it has no helper thread. But getting back to usb-storage,

But ub supports only a subset of storage devices, doesn't it?

[..] 
> This is what made me suspect that it's the diry memory writeout problem.
> It's just like how it was on 2.4 before Alan added PF_MEMALLOC.

If we add PF_MEMALLOC, do we solve the issue or make it only less
likely? Isn't there a need to limit users of the reserves in number?

	Regards
		Oliver

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-20 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-19  6:55 PF_MEMALLOC in 2.6 Pete Zaitcev
2004-08-19  6:59 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-19  8:46 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2004-08-19  8:59 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-08-19 12:41 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-08-19 18:25   ` Oliver Neukum
2004-08-20  2:37     ` Nick Piggin
2004-08-20  7:56       ` Oliver Neukum
2004-08-20  8:06         ` Nick Piggin
2004-08-20  8:40           ` Pete Zaitcev
2004-08-20 14:50             ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2004-08-20 15:02               ` Alan Cox
2004-08-20 16:04                 ` Rik van Riel
2004-08-20 16:06                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-08-20 16:10                     ` Alan Cox
2004-08-20 16:14                       ` Rik van Riel
2004-08-21  2:03                 ` Nick Piggin
2004-08-20  8:52           ` Oliver Neukum
2004-08-20  9:06             ` Nick Piggin
2004-08-26 21:16             ` Zephaniah E. Hull
2004-08-26 22:04               ` Oliver Neukum
     [not found]                 ` <20040827032554.GB30820@babylon.d2dc.net>
2004-08-27  9:15                   ` Oliver Neukum
2004-08-26 23:41               ` Mikulas Patocka
2004-08-20 10:31   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2004-08-20 15:34     ` Oliver Neukum

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