From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 16:04:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Ingo Molnar Reply-To: mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: the new VM In-Reply-To: <20000925160412.G22882@athlon.random> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Linus Torvalds , Rik van Riel , Roger Larsson , MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Again: the bean counting and all the limit happens at the higher > layer. I shouldn't know anything about it when I play with the lower > layer GFP memory balancing code. exactly, and this is why if a higher level lets through a GFP_KERNEL, then it *must* succeed. Otherwise either the higher level code is buggy, or the VM balance is buggy, but we want to have clear signs of it. Ingo -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/