Re: [RFC] mempool_alloc() pre-allocated object usage

[Brian Gerst]

Paul Mundt wrote:
> The downside to this is that some people may be expecting that
> pre-allocated elements are used as reserve space for when regular
> allocations aren't possible. In which case, this would break that
> behaviour.

This is the original intent of the mempool.  There must be objects in 
reserve so that the machine doesn't deadlock on critical allocations 
(ie. disk writes) under memory pressure.

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				Brian Gerst
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