Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Mon, 13 Sep 1999 19:44:47 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Swapping over network (and crypted loop and ...) made possible |
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Hi,
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999 19:17:53 +0200, Pavel Machek <pavel@bug.ucw.cz> said:
> are always true. From now on, even if kswapd blocks on memory when > swapping, kreclaimd will notice extremely-low-on-memory situation and > will recover by freeing pages.
That shouldn't be possible anyway: kswapd has the PF_MEMALLOC flag on the process set, so it should never, ever block on memory itself.
--Stephen
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