From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: arjanv@redhat.com, alan@redhat.com, greg@kroah.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, riel@redhat.com, sct@redhat.com
Subject: Re: PF_MEMALLOC in 2.6
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 23:59:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040819065909.GH11200@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040818235523.383737cd@lembas.zaitcev.lan>
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 11:55:23PM -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> The PF_MEMALLOC is required on usb-storage threads in 2.4, because ext3
> will deadlock and otherwise misbehave when it's trying to write out
> dirty pages under memory pressure.
> I received a bug report today from an FC3T1 user with same symptoms
> as 2.4. But I'm entirely clueless in the way VM operates. Comments?
I suspect this describes it adequately. If the shoe fits...
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-19 7:01 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 [this message]
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
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