On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > [...] I don't think shrinking the inode cache is actually illegal when > GPF_IO isn't set. In fact, it's probably only the buffer cache itself > that has to avoid recursion - the other stuff doesn't actually do any > IO. i just found this out by example, i'm running the shrink_[i|d]cache stuff even if __GFP_IO is not set, and no problems so far. (and much better balancing behavior) Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
- __GFP_IO && shrink_[d|i]cache_memory()? Ingo Molnar
- Re: __GFP_IO && shrink_[d|i]cache_memory()... Linus Torvalds
- Re: __GFP_IO && shrink_[d|i]cache_memo... Ingo Molnar
- Re: __GFP_IO && shrink_[d|i]cache_... Linus Torvalds
- Re: __GFP_IO && shrink_[d|i]ca... Linus Torvalds
- Re: __GFP_IO && shrink_[d... Ingo Molnar
- [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 Ingo Molnar
- Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-tes... Andrea Arcangeli
- Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0... Ingo Molnar
- Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0... Andrea Arcangeli
- Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0... Ingo Molnar
- Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0... Stephen C. Tweedie
- Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0... Andrea Arcangeli