Re: the new VMt

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 11:51:49 EST


> > 2 active processes, no swap
> >
> > #1 #2
> > kmalloc 32K kmalloc 16K
> > OK OK
> > kmalloc 16K kmalloc 32K
> > block block
> >
>
> ... and we get two wakeup_kswapd()s. kswapd has PF_MEMALLOC and so is
> able to eat memory which processes #1 and #2 are not allowed to touch.

'no swap'

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