Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:52:47 -0600 | From | yodaiken@fsmlabs ... | Subject | Re: the new VMt |
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On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:42:49PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:16:56PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Unless Im missing something here think about this case > > > > 2 active processes, no swap > > > > #1 #2 > > kmalloc 32K kmalloc 16K > > OK OK > > kmalloc 16K kmalloc 32K > > block block > > > > ... and we get two wakeup_kswapd()s. kswapd has PF_MEMALLOC and so is > able to eat memory which processes #1 and #2 are not allowed to touch. > Progress is made, clean pages are discarded and dirty ones queued for > write, memory becomes free again and the world is a better place. > > Or so goes the theory, at least.
from fs/select.c
walk = out; while(nfds > 0) { poll_table *tmp = (poll_table *) __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL); if (!tmp) { while(out != NULL) { tmp = out->next; free_page((unsigned long)out); out = tmp; } return NULL; } tmp->nr = 0; tmp->entry = (struct poll_table_entry *)(tmp + 1); tmp->next = NULL; walk->next = tmp; walk = tmp; nfds -=__MAX_POLL_TABLE_ENTRIES; }
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