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Date:	Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:42:52 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Linux-Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux-NFS <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Mike Christie <michaelc@...wisc.edu>,
	Eric B Munson <emunson@...bm.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/12] nfs: Prevent page allocator recursions with swap
 over NFS.

On 06/20/2012 05:38 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> GFP_NOFS is _more_ permissive than GFP_NOIO in that it will initiate
> IO, just not of any filesystem data.
>
> The problem is that previously NOFS was correct because that avoids
> recursion into the NFS code. With swap-over-NFS, it is no longer
> correct as swap IO can lead to this recursion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra<a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman<mgorman@...e.de>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel<riel@...hat.com>

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