Re: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...]

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:45:35 +0100 (CET)


On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

> If shrink_mmap() can exhaust the timeslice while we are swapping (ie. we

When we are in shrink_mmap() we are _not_ swapping. We are instead looping
in the mem_map pool.

If we instead block in I/O sync, the timeslice should be not touched.

Andrea Arcangeli

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