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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/7] Kill PF_MEMALLOC abuse
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 04:16:04PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> Some subsystem paid attention (1) only, and start to use PF_MEMALLOC abuse.
> But, the fact is, PF_MEMALLOC is the promise of "I have lots freeable memory.
> if I allocate few memory, I can return more much meory to the system!".
> Non MM subsystem must not use PF_MEMALLOC. Memory reclaim
> need few memory, anyone must not prevent it. Otherwise the system cause
> mysterious hang-up and/or OOM Killer invokation.

And that's exactly the promises xfsbufd gives. It writes out dirty
metadata buffers and will free lots of memory if you kick it.



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