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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@exanet.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Deadlock during heavy write activity to userspace NFS server on local NFS mount
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:17:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1090981035.14637.30.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41070183.5000701@yahoo.com.au>

På ty , 27/07/2004 klokka 21:29, skreiv Nick Piggin:

> There is some need arising for a call to set the PF_MEMALLOC flag for
> userspace tasks, so you could probably get a patch accepted. Don't
> call it KSWAPD_HELPER though, maybe MEMFREE or RECLAIM or RECLAIM_HELPER.
> 
> But why is your NFS server needed to reclaim memory? Do you have the
> filesystem mounted locally?

...and why can't this problem be fixed by judicious use of mlock()?

Cheers,
  Trond

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-28  2:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-26 13:11 Avi Kivity
2004-07-26 21:02 ` Pavel Machek
2004-07-27 20:22   ` Avi Kivity
2004-07-27 20:34     ` Pavel Machek
2004-07-27 21:02       ` Avi Kivity
2004-07-28  1:29         ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-28  2:17           ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2004-07-28  5:13             ` Avi Kivity
2004-07-28  5:11           ` Avi Kivity
2004-07-28  5:29             ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-28  7:05               ` Avi Kivity
2004-07-28  7:16                 ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-28  7:45                   ` Avi Kivity
2004-07-28  9:05                     ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-28 10:11                       ` Avi Kivity
2004-07-28 10:30                         ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-28 11:48                           ` Avi Kivity
2004-07-29  8:29                             ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-29 12:19                               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-07-29 16:09                               ` Avi Kivity
2004-07-28 12:08       ` Mikulas Patocka
2004-07-28 12:18         ` Avi Kivity

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