From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 10:26:08 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: [PATCH] add vmalloc stats to meminfo Message-ID: <20020915172608.GJ3530@holomorphy.com> References: <20020915071157.GH3530@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: brief message Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Cc: Andrew Morton , Dave Hansen , "Martin J. Bligh" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Also, dynamic vmalloc allocations may very well be starved by boot-time >> allocations on systems where much vmallocspace is required for IO memory. >> The failure mode of such is effectively deadlock, since they block >> indefinitely waiting for permanent boot-time allocations to be freed up. On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 10:23:24AM -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Thank you!! How difficult would it be to back-port this to 2.4.18? Note the follow-up to this saying that the above paragraph was incorrect. It doesn't sleep except to allocate backing memmory. Bill -- 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/