Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 01 November 2005 08:46, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> how will the 100% solution handle a simple kmalloc()-ed kernel buffer,
> that is pinned down, and to/from which live pointers may exist? That
> alone can prevent RAM from being removable.

Would you like to apply your "100% or nothing" argument to the virtual memory 
management subsystem and see how it sounds in that context?  (As an argument 
that we shouldn't _have_ one?)

>  Ingo

Rob
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