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Message-ID: <4a5909270708092034yaa0a583w70084ef93266df48@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 23:34:20 -0400 From: "Daniel Phillips" <daniel.raymond.phillips@...il.com> To: "Christoph Lameter" <clameter@....com> Cc: "Daniel Phillips" <phillips@...nq.net>, "Peter Zijlstra" <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, "Matt Mackall" <mpm@...enic.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, "David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "Daniel Phillips" <phillips@...gle.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK On 8/9/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com> wrote: > The allocations problems that this patch addresses can be fixed by making reclaim > more intelligent. If you believe that the deadlock problems we address here can be better fixed by making reclaim more intelligent then please post a patch and we will test it. I am highly skeptical, but the proof is in the patch. > If we can reclaim in an emergency even in ATOMIC contexts then things get much > easier. It is already easy, and it is already fixed in this patch series. Sure, we can pare these patches down a little more, but you are going to have a really hard time coming up with something simpler that actually works. Regards, Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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