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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@istop.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace
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Hi Avi,

On Tuesday 30 November 2004 16:37, Avi Kivity wrote:
> The situation with userspace filesystems is:
>
>   some process allocates memory, blocking on kswapd as memory is full
>   kswapd calls userspace filesystem to free memory
>   userspace filesystem calls kernel, which allocates memory and blocks
> on kswapd
>   eventually all processes in the system block on kswapd
>
> I have observed (and fixed) this on a real system.

What was your fix?

Regards,

Daniel