On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 23:20 +0300, Nikolay Borisov wrote: > While GFP_ATOMIC does indeed look the correct solution for this particular > case I was wondering whether something like (GFP_KERNEL & ~__GFP_WAIT) > wouldn't also make the cut without causing sleeping? I guess this is exactly > the sort of situation that Mel Gorman's patch can address > (marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=144283282101953) ?
This is not applicable here, because the caller would have to find a way to keep trying. I believe one way to handle this problem (in a followup patch) would be to use a work queue for the gc, not a timer. Using a timer for gc is almost always subject to big problems anyway. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
