Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Apr 2008 13:45:57 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] scsi: fix sense_slab/bio swapping livelock |
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On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> So something like this fugly patch on top of the SLUB variable order > patches that let the allocator fall-back to smaller page orders. Survives > OOM in my testing and the box seems to be bit more responsive even under X > with this.
Hmmmm... Peter has the most experience with these issues. Maybe the best would be to have this sort of logic in a more general way in the page allocator? Similar issues surely exist with the page allocator and a fix there would fix it for all users.
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