From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:01:52 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/6] Critical Page Pool Message-ID: <20051214120152.GB5270@opteron.random> References: <439FCECA.3060909@us.ibm.com> <20051214100841.GA18381@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051214100841.GA18381@elf.ucw.cz> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Pavel Machek Cc: Matthew Dobson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sridhar Samudrala , Andrew Morton , Linux Memory Management List-ID: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 11:08:41AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > because reserved memory pool would have to be "sum of all network > interface bandwidths * ammount of time expected to survive without > network" which is way too much. Yes, a global pool isn't really useful. A per-subsystem pool would be more reasonable... > gigabytes into your machine. But don't go introducing infrastructure > that _can't_ be used right. Agreed, the current design of the patch can't be used right. -- 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