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To: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, linux-mm@kvack.org, Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>, Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@google.com>

On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Luigi Semenzato wrote:

> I see.  But then I am wondering: if there is no limit to the number of
> threads that can access the reserved memory, then is it possible that
> that memory will be exhausted?  Is the size of the reserved memory
> based on heuristics then?
> 

We assume that processes with access to memory reserves will eventually 
exit and free their memory, that has always been the case.

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