Re: [PATCH] scsi: fix sense_slab/bio swapping livelock

[Pekka Enberg]

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Hmmmm... Peter has the most experience with these issues. Maybe the best 
> would be to have this sort of logic in a more general way in the page 
> allocator? Similar issues surely exist with the page allocator and a fix 
> there would fix it for all users.

This needs some support in the slab allocator anyway. Keep in mind that 
the patch is specifically addressing writeback in OOM conditions so we 
must (1) prioritize GFP_TEMPORARY allocations over everyone else (which 
just get NULL) and (2) use the remaining available memory as efficiently 
as possible for _all_ GFP_TEMPORARY allocations.

Peter is, however, bringing up a good point that my patch doesn't 
actually _guarantee_ anything so I'm still wondering if this approach 
makes any sense... But I sure do like Linus' ideas of marking 
short-lived allocations and trying harder for them in OOM.

			Pekka
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