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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@it.uc3m.es>
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Subject: Re: Kernel deadlock using nbd over acenic driver.
In-Reply-To: <200205161635.RAA26824@gw.chygwyn.com> from Steven Whitehouse at
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To: Steve Whitehouse <Steve@ChyGwyn.com>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 09:01:12 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: ptb@it.uc3m.es, Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>,
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"Steven Whitehouse wrote:"
> Thats effectively what PF_MEMALLOC does. The code in question is in
> page_alloc.c:__alloc_pages just before and after the rebalance: label.
> The z->pages_min gives a per zone minimum for "other processes" that are
> not PF_MEMALLOC,

A related question, then ... can one adjust the difference between the
ceiling for "normal" processes and PF_MEMALLOC processes, and if so,
how?

Peter