Hi... > But I could not understand why and how could a filesystem request be > initiated in order to free memory (the case avoided by GFP_NOFS)? Not really sure, but I have an idea. What if the memory block you want to free is currently swapped out? Thus at least, you need to mark the related swap slot(s) as "free", right? In other word, it will generate some I/Os, although not too much. CMIIW people... regards, Mulyadi -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
