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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next prev parent 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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