Re: scheduler went mad?

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Thu Apr 12 2001 - 11:53:21 EST


On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> This should fix it
>
> --- mm/page_alloc.c.orig Thu Apr 12 13:47:53 2001
> +++ mm/page_alloc.c Thu Apr 12 13:48:06 2001
> @@ -454,7 +454,7 @@
> if (gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT) {
> memory_pressure++;
> try_to_free_pages(gfp_mask);
> - wakeup_bdflush(0);
> + balance_dirty(NODEV);
> goto try_again;
> }

Remember that we can ONLY do this if we have __GFP_IO ...

regards,

Rik

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