> I think that's an improvement in all respects. > > However it still does not generally address the deadlock scenario: if > there's a small DMA zone, and fuse manages to put all of those pages > under writeout, then there's trouble.
And the only way to solve that AFAICS, is to make sure fuse never uses more than e.g. 50% of _any_ zone for page cache. And that may need some tweaking in the allocator... Miklos - 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/
