Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932171AbXHFSvz (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 14:51:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751997AbXHFSvr (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 14:51:47 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-4-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:53623 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751874AbXHFSvq (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 14:51:46 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:51:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Daniel Phillips cc: Peter Zijlstra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, David Miller , Andrew Morton , Daniel Phillips , Pekka Enberg , Matt Mackall , Lee Schermerhorn , Steve Dickson Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK In-Reply-To: <200708061148.43870.phillips@phunq.net> Message-ID: References: <20070806102922.907530000@chello.nl> <200708061121.50351.phillips@phunq.net> <200708061148.43870.phillips@phunq.net> 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: 827 Lines: 21 On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Monday 06 August 2007 11:42, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > Currently your system likely would have died here, so ending up > > > with a reserve page temporarily on the wrong node is already an > > > improvement. > > > > The system would have died? Why? > > Because a block device may have deadlocked here, leaving the system > unable to clean dirty memory, or unable to load executables over the > network for example. So this is a locking problem that has not been taken care of? - 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/