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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 19:56:49 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: [UNTESTED PATCH] Throttle VM allocators
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On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> +	/*
> +	 * We're possibly going to eat memory from the min<->low
> +	 * "reversed" area. Throttling page reclamation using

"reserved"  ;)

> +	 * the allocators which reach this point will give us a
> +	 * fair system.
> +	 */
> +
> +	if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT))
> +		vm_throttle(classzone, gfp_mask, order);

It might be an idea to also test for PF_MEMALLOC here,
otherwise bad things will happen.

regards,

Rik
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