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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 17:26:59 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: the new VM
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To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> > i think the GFP_USER case should do the oom logic within __alloc_pages(),
> 
> What's the difference of implementing the logic outside alloc_pages?
> Putting the logic inside looks not clean design to me.

it gives consistency and simplicity. The allocators themselves do not have
to care about oom.

	Ingo

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