On Monday 06 August 2007 11:51, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > On Monday 06 August 2007 11:42, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > > Currently your system likely would have died here, so ending up > > > > with a reserve page temporarily on the wrong node is already an > > > > improvement. > > > > > > The system would have died? Why? > > > > Because a block device may have deadlocked here, leaving the system > > unable to clean dirty memory, or unable to load executables over > > the network for example. > > So this is a locking problem that has not been taken care of?
A deadlock problem that we used to call memory recursion deadlock, aka: somebody in the vm writeout path needs to allocate memory, but there is no memory, so vm writeout stops forever. Regards, Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
