Re: [RFC 0/9] Reclaim during GFP_ATOMIC allocs

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:

> Just to clarify... I can see how recursive reclaim can prevent memory getting
> eaten up by reclaim (which thus causes allocations from interrupt handlers to
> fail)...
> 
> But this patchset I don't see will do anything to prevent reclaim deadlocks,
> right? (because if there is reclaimable memory at hand, then kswapd should
> eventually reclaim it).

What deadlocks are you thinking about? Reclaim can be run concurrently 
right now.


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