Re: OOM fixes 2/5

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 06:04:25PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> OK this is a fairly lame example... but the current code is more or
> less just lucky that ZONE_DMA doesn't usually fill up with pinned mem
> on machines that need explicit ZONE_DMA allocations.

Yep. For the DMA zone all slab cache will be a memory pin (like ptes for
highmem, but not that many people runs with 3G of ram in ptes, and I
guess the ones doing it aren't normally using a mainline kernel in the
first place so they're likely not running into it either). While slab
cache pinning the normal zone has more probability of being reproduced
on l-k in random usages.
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