Re: [PATCH 02/10] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK

Daniel Phillips
2007-08-10T03:34:32Z

On 8/9/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> The allocations problems that this patch addresses can be fixed by making reclaim
> more intelligent.

If you believe that the deadlock problems we address here can be
better fixed by making reclaim more intelligent then please post a
patch and we will test it. I am highly skeptical, but the proof is in
the patch.

> If we can reclaim in an emergency even in ATOMIC contexts then things get much
> easier.

It is already easy, and it is already fixed in this patch series.
Sure, we can pare these patches down a little more, but you are going
to have a really hard time coming up with something simpler that
actually works.

Regards,

Daniel