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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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... -- All Rights Reversed -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>