Re: nfs unhappiness with memory pressure

[Kenny Simpson]

--- Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  ...OTOH, I'm not entirely sure we want to use GFP_ATOMIC and risk
> >  bleeding the emergency pools dry: we also need those in order to receive
> >  replies from the server.
> 
> You can use (GFP_ATOMIC & ~__GFP_HIGH) to avoid draining emergency pools.
> 
> 

After beating on this for a while now, it all seems very happy.  The write out to nfs are a little
choppy, but make forward progress.

Any chance of this being in 2.6.15?

-Kenny



		
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