Re: [PATCH] mm: Avoid possible deadlock caused by too_many_isolated()

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On 10/22/2010 12:55 AM, Wu Fengguang wrote:

Now !GFP_IOFS reclaims won't be waiting for GFP_IOFS reclaims to
progress. They will be blocked only when there are too many concurrent
!GFP_IOFS reclaims, however that's very unlikely because the IO-less
direct reclaims is able to progress much more faster, and they won't
deadlock each other. The threshold is raised high enough for them, so
that there can be sufficient parallel progress of !GFP_IOFS reclaims.

CC: Torsten Kaiser<just.for.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Minchan Kim<minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: NeilBrown<neilb@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro<kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang<fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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