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Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 15:55:56 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: arjan@fenrus.demon.nl
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.19pre1aa1
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On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 08:35:51AM +0000, arjan@fenrus.demon.nl wrote:
> In article <20020305005215.U20606@dualathlon.random> you wrote:
> 
> > I don't see how per-zone lru lists are related to the kswapd deadlock.
> > as soon as the ZONE_DMA will be filled with filedescriptors or with
> > pagetables (or whatever non pageable/shrinkable kernel datastructure you
> > prefer) kswapd will go mad without classzone, period.
> 
> So does it with class zone on a scsi system....

as said in another message such pool isn't refilled in a flood.

Andrea
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