linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/12] Avoid overflowing of stack during page reclaim V2

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Message-ID: <20100615114523.GF26788@csn.ul.ie>
Date:	Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:45:24 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/12] Avoid overflowing of stack during page reclaim V2

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:10:11AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:17:41PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > This is a merging of two series - the first of which reduces stack usage
> > in page reclaim and the second which writes contiguous pages during reclaim
> > and avoids writeback in direct reclaimers.
> 
> This stuff looks good to me from the filesystem POV.
> 
> You might want to throw in a follow on patch to remove the PF_MEMALLOC
> checks from the various ->writepage methods.
> 

Will do, thanks.

-- 
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab
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