On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:59:15PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > So current_is_kswapd() returns true for a thread which is not kswapd. > That's a bit smelly. > > Should this thread really be incrementing KSWAPD_INODESTEAL instead of > PGINODESTEAL, for example? current_is_kswapd() does a range of things, > only one(?) of which you actually want. Actually we want all of them. The allocation workqueue is a workaround for the incredible stack usage in the Linux I/O path. If it is called by kswapd it should act as if it were kswapd for all purposes. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
