Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace | Date | Fri, 3 Dec 2004 17:07:45 -0500 |
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Hi Avi,
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 16:37, Avi Kivity wrote: > The situation with userspace filesystems is: > > some process allocates memory, blocking on kswapd as memory is full > kswapd calls userspace filesystem to free memory > userspace filesystem calls kernel, which allocates memory and blocks > on kswapd > eventually all processes in the system block on kswapd > > I have observed (and fixed) this on a real system.
What was your fix?
Regards,
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