On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Mike Galbraith wrote:

Another thing I'm curious about is increasing memory pressure in
the event of an allocation failure (retry).  Why do we do that?

We were short on free memory, so kswapd should work /harder/
to keep up with the current load.

P.S.  in buffer.c, we do a LockPage(), but no UnlockPage() in
the case of no_buffer_head.. is that correct?

No it isn't ;)  Thanks for pointing out this one...

regards,

Rik
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