Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Jan 1999 13:55:03 GMT | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...] |
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Hi,
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 20:53:28 +0100 (CET), Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@e-mind.com> said:
> Yes we do I/O async so while the I/O is in action we could be just back in > userspace, but both shrink_mmap() and swap_out() are not something of > really so light (at least with >128Mbyte of ram). When we are running in > shrink_mmap() the current->counter is decreased as usual.
If shrink_mmap() can exhaust the timeslice while we are swapping (ie. we are IO-bound), then something is *SERIOUSLY* wrong!
--Stephen
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