Re: filecache/swapcache questions [RFC] [RFT] [PATCH] kanoj-mm12-2.3.8

["Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On Mon, 28 Jun 1999 14:38:43 -0700 (PDT), kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com
(Kanoj Sarcar) said:

> The page is not really free for reallocation, unless kswapd can
> push out the contents to disk, right? Which means, kswapd should
> have as minimal sleep/memallocation points as possible ...

The kswapd process is marked with the PF_MEMALLOC process flag, so any
recursive memory allocations it attempts get satisfied without IO being
invoked.  kswapd does not sleep during memory allocation.

--Stephen
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