From: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch -mm 4/5] mm: test and set zone reclaim lock before starting reclaim
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:56:35 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F88DFB.3020307@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.0.9999.0709212312560.13727@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
David Rientjes wrote:
> +
> + if (zone_test_and_set_flag(zone, ZONE_RECLAIM_LOCKED))
> + return 0;
What's the consequence of this on the caller of zone_reclaim()?
I see that the zone is marked as full and will not be re-examined
again.
Am I missing something?
> + ret = __zone_reclaim(zone, gfp_mask, order);
> + zone_clear_flag(zone, ZONE_RECLAIM_LOCKED);
> +
> + return ret;
> }
> #endif
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Warm Regards,
Balbir Singh
Linux Technology Center
IBM, ISTL
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-25 4:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-22 17:47 [patch -mm 1/5] oom: prevent including sched.h in header file David Rientjes
2007-09-22 17:47 ` [patch -mm 2/5] oom: add header file to Kbuild as unifdef David Rientjes
2007-09-22 17:47 ` [patch -mm 3/5] oom: convert zone_scan_lock from mutex to spinlock David Rientjes
2007-09-22 17:47 ` [patch -mm 4/5] mm: test and set zone reclaim lock before starting reclaim David Rientjes
2007-09-22 17:47 ` [patch -mm 5/5] oom: add sysctl to dump tasks memory state David Rientjes
2007-09-25 4:37 ` Balbir Singh
2007-09-25 4:57 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-26 20:06 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-26 20:46 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-26 21:47 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-27 6:15 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-24 19:05 ` [patch -mm 4/5] mm: test and set zone reclaim lock before starting reclaim Christoph Lameter
2007-09-24 19:14 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-24 20:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-24 21:02 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-24 21:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-25 4:26 ` Balbir Singh [this message]
2007-09-25 4:34 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-25 6:17 ` Balbir Singh
2007-09-25 6:29 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-25 21:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-25 21:19 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-25 21:39 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-25 21:43 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-25 21:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-25 21:17 ` David Rientjes
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