Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Aug 2007 23:34:20 -0400 | From | "Daniel Phillips" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/10] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK |
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On 8/9/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote: > The allocations problems that this patch addresses can be fixed by making reclaim > more intelligent.
If you believe that the deadlock problems we address here can be better fixed by making reclaim more intelligent then please post a patch and we will test it. I am highly skeptical, but the proof is in the patch.
> If we can reclaim in an emergency even in ATOMIC contexts then things get much > easier.
It is already easy, and it is already fixed in this patch series. Sure, we can pare these patches down a little more, but you are going to have a really hard time coming up with something simpler that actually works.
Regards,
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