Re: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...]

Andrea Arcangeli
1999-01-22T20:19:07Z

On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

> If shrink_mmap() can exhaust the timeslice while we are swapping (ie. we

When we are in shrink_mmap() we are _not_ swapping. We are instead looping
in the mem_map pool.

If we instead block in I/O sync, the timeslice should be not touched.

Andrea Arcangeli