On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Mel Gorman wrote: > Kosaki's original patch for this problem was to allocate an sp node and policy > within shared_policy_replace and initialise it when the lock is reacquired. I > was not keen on this approach because it partially duplicates sp_alloc(). As > the paths were sp->lock is taken are not that performance critical this > patch converts sp->lock to sp->mutex so it can sleep when calling sp_alloc(). Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>