Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc

On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 09:20 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:

Well, if all of these users start having their own private pools of
emergency memory, I'm not sure that's such a great idea either.

That's a secondary problem, and could be reduced by something like the
memory reservation system I provided in the swap-over-nfs patches. Of
course, when all these users can actually happen concurrently there's
really nothing much you can do about it.