Benjamin LaHaise wrote:

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:02:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

quoted

But let's back off a bit.   The problem is that a process
doing a large write() can penalise innocent processes which
want to allocate memory.

How to fix that?

First off, make it obvious where we block in the allocation path (pawning
off all memory reaping to kswapd et al is an easy first step here).  Then
make allocators cycle through on a FIFO basis by using something like the
page reservation patch I came up with a while ago.  That'll give us an
easy place to change scheduling behaviour.

None of that will preferentially throttle the source of
dirty pages, which seems a good thing to do?
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