Re: vm kills processes in our 2.3.12 port of reiserfs - what was

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Mon, 30 Aug 1999 09:32:50 -0700 (PDT)

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> I think it's because mark_dirty_buffer doesn't enforce a limit in the
> grow of dirty buffers in the system.

I think it should be done by the caller: there are cases where you need to
mark something dirty and you do NOT want to sleep.

Linus

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