Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 4 authors, 2001-06-09

Re: [PATCH] VM tuning patch, take 2

From: Marcelo Tosatti <hidden>
Date: 2001-06-08 00:19:02

+               if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO)) == (__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO)) {
+                       int progress = try_to_free_pages(gfp_mask);
+                       if(!progress) {
+                               wakeup_kswapd(1);
+                               goto try_again;
+                       }

You're going to allow GFP_BUFFER allocations to eat from the reserved
queues. Eek. 





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