On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I would say that the filesystem is broke if it has such expectations > > regardless of page migration. > > Others disagree ;) > > The filesystem has *told* the core kernel what its allocation constraints > are by setting up mapping_gfp_mask(). If the core kernel stops honouring > that request then it is core kernel which is broken. Then I think we should disable page migration for allocations that do not allow access to the policy zone. That would fix it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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