From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:33:32 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/6] mm: slab allocation fairness In-Reply-To: <1164912915.6588.153.camel@twins> Message-ID: References: <20061130101451.495412000@chello.nl> > <20061130101921.113055000@chello.nl> > <1164912915.6588.153.camel@twins> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, David Miller List-ID: On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > No, the forced allocation is to test the allocation hardness at that > point in time. I could not think of another way to test that than to > actually to an allocation. Typically we do this by checking the number of free pages in a zone compared to the high low limits. See mmzone.h. -- 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