Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422870AbWHYPvi (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:51:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422869AbWHYPvh (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:51:37 -0400 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:38121 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422867AbWHYPve (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:51:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 08:51:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter To: Peter Zijlstra cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Indan Zupancic , Evgeniy Polyakov , Daniel Phillips , Rik van Riel , David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] VM deadlock prevention -v5 In-Reply-To: <20060825153946.24271.42758.sendpatchset@twins> Message-ID: References: <20060825153946.24271.42758.sendpatchset@twins> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 603 Lines: 14 On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > The basic premises is that network sockets serving the VM need undisturbed > functionality in the face of severe memory shortage. > > This patch-set provides the framework to provide this. Hmmm.. Is it not possible to avoid the memory pools by guaranteeing that a certain number of page is easily reclaimable? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/