Re: [PATCH 0/12] Avoid overflowing of stack during page reclaim V2

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Tue Jun 15 2010 - 07:45:48 EST


On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:10:11AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.
>

Will do, thanks.

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Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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