From: Alex Samad <alex@samad.com.au>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: page swap allocation error/failure in 2.6.25
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:07:01 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080727060701.GA7157@samad.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1216971601.7257.345.camel@twins>
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On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 09:40:01AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 17:20 +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> > Hi
[snip]
>
>
> Its harmless if it happens sporadically.
>
> Atomic order 2 allocations are just bound to go wrong under pressure.
can you point me to any doco that explains this ?
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>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-27 6:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-25 7:20 page swap allocation error/failure in 2.6.25 Alex Samad
2008-07-25 7:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-27 6:07 ` Alex Samad [this message]
2008-07-28 10:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-29 0:06 ` Alex Samad
2008-07-29 9:14 ` Mel Gorman
2008-07-29 9:58 ` Alex Samad
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