Re: [PATCH 0/7] Kill PF_MEMALLOC abuse

[KOSAKI Motohiro]

> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 04:16:04PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > Some subsystem paid attention (1) only, and start to use PF_MEMALLOC abuse.
> > But, the fact is, PF_MEMALLOC is the promise of "I have lots freeable memory.
> > if I allocate few memory, I can return more much meory to the system!".
> > Non MM subsystem must not use PF_MEMALLOC. Memory reclaim
> > need few memory, anyone must not prevent it. Otherwise the system cause
> > mysterious hang-up and/or OOM Killer invokation.
> 
> And that's exactly the promises xfsbufd gives.  It writes out dirty
> metadata buffers and will free lots of memory if you kick it. 

if xfsbufd doesn't only write out dirty data but also drop page,
I agree you. 


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