On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Rik van Riel wrote: > > What is preventing that from occurring right now? If the dirty pags are > > aligned in the right way you can have the exact same situation. > > For one, dirty page writeout is done even when free memory > is low. The kernel will dig into the PF_MEMALLOC reserves, > instead of deciding not to do writeout unless there is lots > of free memory.
Right that is a fundamental problem with this RFC. We need to be able to get into PF_MEMALLOC reserves for writeout. > Secondly, why would you want to recreate this worst case on > purpose every time the pageout code runs? I did not intend that to occur. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
