From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:24:43 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [Bug 3268] New: Lowmemory exhaustion problem with v2.6.8.1-mm4 16gb Message-Id: <20040824162443.500f3d02.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1093389067.5677.1839.camel@knk> References: <200408242051.i7OKplP0009870@fire-1.osdl.org> <20040824144312.09b4af42.akpm@osdl.org> <1093389067.5677.1839.camel@knk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: keith Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, hugh@veritas.com List-ID: keith 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. -- 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/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org