Re: Kernel deadlock using nbd over acenic driver.

From: Peter T. Breuer (ptb@it.uc3m.es)
Date: Fri May 17 2002 - 02:01:12 EST


"Steven Whitehouse wrote:"
> Thats effectively what PF_MEMALLOC does. The code in question is in
> page_alloc.c:__alloc_pages just before and after the rebalance: label.
> The z->pages_min gives a per zone minimum for "other processes" that are
> not PF_MEMALLOC,

A related question, then ... can one adjust the difference between the
ceiling for "normal" processes and PF_MEMALLOC processes, and if so,
how?

Peter
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