On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 03:49:09AM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: > > because those requests have ended up in your file server which is > > waiting for page daemon and thus deadlock? just a wild guess, though. > > So the right fix would be to have a uvm.user_paging count for pages from > non kernel FS, and exclude that count from the test?
The right fix is to not let the kernel wait for userspace. In this case that's probably not trivial. There's a reason userlevel file systems have never really taken off... -- David A. Holland [email protected]
