Re: [PATCH 24/32] dlm: dlm workqueues aren't used in memoryreclaim path

From: Steven Whitehouse
Date: Mon Jan 03 2011 - 09:20:34 EST


Hi,

On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 15:01 +0100, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 01:58:27PM +0000, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > You already acked a patch to do this, which is in the DLM git tree,
> > waiting for the next merge window:
> >
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/teigland/dlm.git;a=commitdiff;h=dcce240ead802d42b1e45ad2fcb2ed4a399cb255
>
> Ooh, I see. Hmmm... maybe I've asked this before but do you really
> need WQ_MEM_RECLAIM there? Is dlm used during memory reclaim?
>
> Thanks.
>

Yes, it is in case of deallocation of inodes, so we have to be careful
about that,

Steve.


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/