Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 16 Oct 2001 19:56:49 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [UNTESTED PATCH] Throttle VM allocators |
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On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> + /* > + * We're possibly going to eat memory from the min<->low > + * "reversed" area. Throttling page reclamation using
"reserved" ;)
> + * the allocators which reach this point will give us a > + * fair system. > + */ > + > + if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT)) > + vm_throttle(classzone, gfp_mask, order);
It might be an idea to also test for PF_MEMALLOC here, otherwise bad things will happen.
regards,
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