On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On 4 Jan 2001, Christoph Rohland wrote:
> > Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > That would loop forever if the writepage func kept returning 1 though
[snip]
> > return 1 if the swap space is exhausted. So everybody using shared
> > anonymous, SYSV shared or POSIX shared memory can hit this.
>
> In case of swap exhausted I think we should just fail.
No. In case of swap exhausted the page needs to be moved to
the active list so we don't clog up the inactive_dirty list
and have the possibility of a deadlock (already done).
In case of "write ordering not yet satisfied", the writepage
function should leave the page on the inactive_dirty list and
maybe write out something else (reiserfs, ext3, xfs...).
regards,
Rik
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