Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Nov 2004 14:27:31 -0200 | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Remove OOM killer from try_to_free_pages / all_unreclaimable braindamage |
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On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 06:01:18PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> While doing this, I noticed that kswapd will happily go to sleep > if all zones have all_unreclaimable set. I bet this is the reason > for the page allocation failures we are seeing. So the patch > also makes balance_pgdat() NOT return and go to "loop_again" > instead in case of page shortage - even if all_unreclaimable is set. > > Basically the "loop_again" logic IS NOT WORKING!
Wrong, the loop_again logic is working, all_zones_ok will be set when DEF_PRIORITY = 0.
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