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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: root@chaos.analogic.com, Szakacsits Szabolcs <szaka@sienet.hu>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] strict VM overcommit for stock 2.4
Date: 18 Jul 2002 21:49:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1027025361.9727.41.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1027020179.1085.150.camel@sinai>

> Same issue with HA etc... its not preventing OOM so much as being
> prepared for it, by pushing the failures into the allocation routines
> and out from the page access.
> 
> Certainly Alan and RedHat found a need for it, too.  It should be pretty
> clear why this is an issue...

The code was written initially because we had large customers with a
direct requirement for the facility. It is also very relevant to
embedded systems where you want controlled failure.

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-18 20:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-11 22:28 [PATCH] strict VM overcommit Robert Love
2002-07-12 17:30 ` [PATCH] strict VM overcommit for stock 2.4 Robert Love
2002-07-18 15:22   ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 16:31     ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 16:36       ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 17:42         ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 17:25           ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 17:31             ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 18:32               ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 19:58               ` Alan Cox
2002-07-18 18:01                 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 18:52                 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 20:52                   ` Alan Cox
2002-07-19  6:17                 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 22:22               ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-19  7:47                 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 18:28             ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 17:50               ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 19:25                 ` stoffel
2002-07-19  5:52                   ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 18:56               ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-18 19:03                 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 19:19                   ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-18 19:22                     ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 20:49                       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-07-19 16:49                   ` Amit Shah
2002-07-19 17:16                     ` Robert Love
2002-07-20  5:02                       ` Amit Shah
2002-07-18 19:10                 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 19:35                   ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-18 19:41                     ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2002-07-18 20:23                       ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-18 20:43                         ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2002-07-19  7:30                   ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-19 18:06                     ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 22:24             ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-18 22:30               ` Robert Love

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