Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755257Ab0FNPKS (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:10:18 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:38185 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755050Ab0FNPKP (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:10:15 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:10:11 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Mel Gorman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Dave Chinner , Chris Mason , Nick Piggin , Rik van Riel , Johannes Weiner , Christoph Hellwig , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/12] Avoid overflowing of stack during page reclaim V2 Message-ID: <20100614151011.GA24948@infradead.org> References: <1276514273-27693-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1276514273-27693-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 675 Lines: 15 On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:17:41PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > This is a merging of two series - the first of which reduces stack usage > in page reclaim and the second which writes contiguous pages during reclaim > and avoids writeback in direct reclaimers. This stuff looks good to me from the filesystem POV. You might want to throw in a follow on patch to remove the PF_MEMALLOC checks from the various ->writepage methods. -- 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/