Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Deadlock during heavy write activity to userspace NFS server on local NFS mount | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:17:15 -0400 |
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På ty , 27/07/2004 klokka 21:29, skreiv Nick Piggin:
> There is some need arising for a call to set the PF_MEMALLOC flag for > userspace tasks, so you could probably get a patch accepted. Don't > call it KSWAPD_HELPER though, maybe MEMFREE or RECLAIM or RECLAIM_HELPER. > > But why is your NFS server needed to reclaim memory? Do you have the > filesystem mounted locally?
...and why can't this problem be fixed by judicious use of mlock()?
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