From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:57:45 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [patch 0/9] Critical Mempools In-Reply-To: <1138217992.2092.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <1138217992.2092.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Matthew Dobson Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sri@us.ibm.com, andrea@suse.de, pavel@suse.cz, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Matthew Dobson wrote: > Using this new approach, a subsystem can create a mempool and then pass a > pointer to this mempool on to all its slab allocations. Anytime one of its > slab allocations needs to allocate memory that memory will be allocated > through the specified mempool, rather than through alloc_pages_node() directly. All subsystems will now get more complicated by having to add this emergency functionality? > Feedback on these patches (against 2.6.16-rc1) would be greatly appreciated. There surely must be a better way than revising all subsystems for critical allocations. -- 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