On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 21:58 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > The `while' loop worries me for some reason, so I wimped out and just tried
> > the remote drain once.
>
> Even the `goto restart' which is in this patch worries me from a livelock
> POV. Perhaps we should only ever run drain_all_local_pages() once per
> __alloc_pages() invokation.
> And perhaps we should run drain_all_local_pages() for GFP_ATOMIC or
> PF_MEMALLOC attempts too.
Good point for PF_MEMALLOC scenario.
-rohit
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