Re: [RFC] Parallelize IO for e2fsck

Theodore Tso
2008-01-28T19:57:33Z

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 07:30:05PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> As user pages are always in highmem, this should be easy to decide:
> only send SIGDANGER when highmem is full. (Yes, there are
> inodes/dentries/file descriptors in lowmem, but I doubt apps will
> respond to SIGDANGER by closing files).

Good point; for a system with at least (say) 2GB of memory, that
definitely makes sense. For a system with less than 768 megs of
memory (how quaint, but it wasn't that long ago this was a lot of
memory :-), there wouldn't *be* any memory in highmem at all....

- Ted