From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:10:34 -0800 From: Paul Jackson Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/8] Critical Page Pool Message-Id: <20051118161034.4ea38a09.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <437E3CC2.6000003@argo.co.il> References: <437E2C69.4000708@us.ibm.com> <437E2F22.6000809@argo.co.il> <437E30A8.1040307@us.ibm.com> <437E3CC2.6000003@argo.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Avi Kivity Cc: colpatch@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Avi wrote: > This may not be possible. What if subsystem A depends on subsystem B to > do its work, both are critical, and subsystem A allocated all the memory > reserve? Apparently Matthew's subsystems have some knowable upper limits on their critical memory needs, so that your scenario can be avoided. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.925.600.0401 -- 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: email@kvack.org