From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>, Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: PF_MEMALLOC in 2.6
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:34:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200408201734.10317.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1092997872.1996.51.camel@sisko.scot.redhat.com>
Am Freitag, 20. August 2004 12:31 schrieb Stephen C. Tweedie:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 13:41, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>
> > Or would it solve the problem at hand, if it made itself PF_MEMALLOC
> > just while servicing a request from a PF_MEMALLOC?
>
> It's not the PF_* state of the caller who submitted the IO that matters,
> though --- it's the state of all threads _waiting_ on the IO, which may
> be different, and which can change even after the IO has begun.
>
> Eg. kswapd does a writepage, the writepage needs to allocate disk space,
> and in doing so tries to access a metadata block which is already
> undergoing IO from a different thread altogether.
Then how do the current SCSI drivers work?
Regards
Oliver
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-20 15:33 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
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 [this message]
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