Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:49:29 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: setting PF_ flags from user space PF_LESS_THROTTLE |
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Steve French <smfltc@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > I wanted to see if PF_LESS_THROTTLE would be helpful for Samba to set(as > it is for nfsd, which sets it directly in kernel) to avoid loopback > mount hangs when low on memory. > > Any idea whether the task flags, in particular PF_LESS_THROTTLE could be > set from user space (I did not see an obvious way, short of invoking a > new kernel helper, which does not exist, to set it on user space's > behalf)?
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