On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Monday 06 August 2007 11:42, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > Currently your system likely would have died here, so ending up > > > with a reserve page temporarily on the wrong node is already an > > > improvement. > > > > The system would have died? Why? > > Because a block device may have deadlocked here, leaving the system > unable to clean dirty memory, or unable to load executables over the > network for example.
So this is a locking problem that has not been taken care of? - 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/