Thread (26 messages) 26 messages, 8 authors, 2005-12-16

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/6] Create Critical Page Pool

From: Rik van Riel <hidden>
Date: 2005-12-14 13:31:13
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On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Matthew Dobson wrote:
Create the basic Critical Page Pool.  Any allocation specifying 
__GFP_CRITICAL will, as a last resort before failing the allocation, try 
to get a page from the critical pool.  For now, only singleton (order 0) 
pages are supported.
How are you going to limit the number of GFP_CRITICAL
allocations to something smaller than the number of
pages in the pool ?

Unless you can do that, all guarantees are off...

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