Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Sep 2000 20:40:05 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: __GFP_IO && shrink_[d|i]cache_memory()? |
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On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> [...] I don't think shrinking the inode cache is actually illegal when > GPF_IO isn't set. In fact, it's probably only the buffer cache itself > that has to avoid recursion - the other stuff doesn't actually do any > IO.
i just found this out by example, i'm running the shrink_[i|d]cache stuff even if __GFP_IO is not set, and no problems so far. (and much better balancing behavior)
Ingo
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