From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:30:28 -0500 (EST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/6] Create Critical Page Pool In-Reply-To: <439FCF4E.3090202@us.ibm.com> Message-ID: References: <439FCECA.3060909@us.ibm.com> <439FCF4E.3090202@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Matthew Dobson Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andrea@suse.de, Sridhar Samudrala , pavel@suse.cz, Andrew Morton , Linux Memory Management List-ID: On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Matthew Dobson wrote: > Create the basic Critical Page Pool. Any allocation specifying > __GFP_CRITICAL will, as a last resort before failing the allocation, try > to get a page from the critical pool. For now, only singleton (order 0) > pages are supported. How are you going to limit the number of GFP_CRITICAL allocations to something smaller than the number of pages in the pool ? Unless you can do that, all guarantees are off... -- All Rights Reversed -- 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