Re: PF_MEMALLOC in 2.6

William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-19T07:01:22Z

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