On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:59:15PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > So current_is_kswapd() returns true for a thread which is not kswapd. > That's a bit smelly. > > Should this thread really be incrementing KSWAPD_INODESTEAL instead of > PGINODESTEAL, for example? current_is_kswapd() does a range of things, > only one(?) of which you actually want.
Actually we want all of them. The allocation workqueue is a workaround for the incredible stack usage in the Linux I/O path. If it is called by kswapd it should act as if it were kswapd for all purposes. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
