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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 13:53:21 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
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Subject: Re: scheduler went mad?
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On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> This should fix it 
> 
> --- mm/page_alloc.c.orig   Thu Apr 12 13:47:53 2001
> +++ mm/page_alloc.c        Thu Apr 12 13:48:06 2001
> @@ -454,7 +454,7 @@
>                 if (gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT) {
>                         memory_pressure++;
>                         try_to_free_pages(gfp_mask);
> -                       wakeup_bdflush(0);
> +                       balance_dirty(NODEV);
>                         goto try_again;
>                 }

Remember that we can ONLY do this if we have __GFP_IO ...

regards,

Rik
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