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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 11:31:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Kenny Simpson <theonetruekenny@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: nfs unhappiness with memory pressure
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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--- Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:
> >  ...OTOH, I'm not entirely sure we want to use GFP_ATOMIC and risk
> >  bleeding the emergency pools dry: we also need those in order to receive
> >  replies from the server.
> 
> You can use (GFP_ATOMIC & ~__GFP_HIGH) to avoid draining emergency pools.
> 
> 

After beating on this for a while now, it all seems very happy.  The write out to nfs are a little
choppy, but make forward progress.

Any chance of this being in 2.6.15?

-Kenny


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