Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/6] mm: slab allocation fairness
From: Christoph Lameter <hidden>
Date: 2006-11-30 19:33:32
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On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
No, the forced allocation is to test the allocation hardness at that point in time. I could not think of another way to test that than to actually to an allocation.
Typically we do this by checking the number of free pages in a zone compared to the high low limits. See mmzone.h.