From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: keith <kmannth@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, hugh@veritas.com
Subject: Re: [Bug 3268] New: Lowmemory exhaustion problem with v2.6.8.1-mm4 16gb
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:24:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040824162443.500f3d02.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1093389067.5677.1839.camel@knk>
keith <kmannth@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Is it possible to fail an kmem_cache_alloc
> call?
Normally not, in the current VM setup (Andrea has differences
of opinion on this, so the code is set up to switch policies).
The kmem_cache_alloc() caller can change that policy by adding
in __GFP_NORETRY.
We'll know more when you've added meminfo/slabinfo/buddyinfo.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-24 23:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200408242051.i7OKplP0009870@fire-1.osdl.org>
2004-08-24 21:43 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-24 23:11 ` keith
2004-08-24 23:24 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-08-24 23:20 ` Hugh Dickins
[not found] <1093400029.5677.1866.camel@knk>
2004-08-25 14:05 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-08-25 19:05 ` keith
2004-08-25 20:37 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-08-25 20:53 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-25 20:59 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-08-25 21:19 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-25 21:35 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-25 21:49 ` keith
2004-08-25 22:02 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-26 15:28 ` Hugh Dickins
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