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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 09:37:45 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: [patch] adjustments to dirty memory thresholds
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On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> +	gfp_nowait = gfp_mask & ~(__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO | __GFP_NOKILL);


I suspect what you want is (in vmscan.c):

-	out_of_memory();
+	if (gfp_mask & __GFP_FS)
+		out_of_memory();

This means we'll just never call out_of_memory() if we haven't
used all possibilities for freeing pages.

regards,

Rik
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