Re: [PATCH] mm: tracking shared dirty pages -v10

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 10:56 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 
> > I intent to make swap over NFS work next.
> 
> Doesn't it work already? Is there some throttling that doesn't work?

I do not know how 'bad' the situation is now that we have the dirty page
tracking stuff, still need to create a test environment.

But the general idea is that its broken because the ACK from writeout
can be delayed and the remaining free memory taken by other incomming
network packets.

Until I have a test setup and some reproducable deadlocks I cannot say
more I'm afraid.

Peter

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