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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/mempool.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempool.c b/mm/mempool.c index b45bcf415147..9ec3a04a0130 100644 --- a/mm/mempool.c +++ b/mm/mempool.c @@ -427,10 +427,10 @@ fail: spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags); /* - * Wait for someone else to return an element to @pool. - * - * FIXME: this should be io_schedule(). The timeout is there as - * a workaround for some DM problems in 2.6.18. + * Wait for someone else to return an element to @pool, but wake + * up occasionally as memory pressure might have reduced even + * and the normal allocation in alloc_fn could succeed even if + * no element was returned. */ io_schedule_timeout(5 * HZ); finish_wait(&pool->wait, &wait); |