On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Ted Ts'o wrote: > A pool of free pages which is reserved for routines that are doing > page cleaning would probably also be a good idea. Maybe that's just > retrying with GFP_ATOMIC if a normal allocation fails, or maybe we > need our own special pool, or maybe we need to dynamically resize the > GFP_ATOMIC pool based on how many subsystems might need to use it.... >
PF_MEMALLOC is used for those tasks, not GFP_ATOMIC. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
