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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] remove throttle_vm_writeout()
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    > I think that's an improvement in all respects.
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    > However it still does not generally address the deadlock scenario: if
    > there's a small DMA zone, and fuse manages to put all of those pages
    > under writeout, then there's trouble.

    And the only way to solve that AFAICS, is to make sure fuse never uses
    more than e.g. 50% of _any_ zone for page cache. And that may need
    some tweaking in the allocator...

    Miklos
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