Re: [PATCH] Swapping over network (and crypted loop and ...) made possible

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Mon, 13 Sep 1999 19:44:47 +0100 (BST)


Hi,

On Wed, 8 Sep 1999 19:17:53 +0200, Pavel Machek <pavel@bug.ucw.cz> said:

> are always true. From now on, even if kswapd blocks on memory when
> swapping, kreclaimd will notice extremely-low-on-memory situation and
> will recover by freeing pages.

That shouldn't be possible anyway: kswapd has the PF_MEMALLOC flag on
the process set, so it should never, ever block on memory itself.

--Stephen

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