Re: [patch 2/2] slub: enforce cpuset restrictions for cpu slabs

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, David Rientjes wrote:

> There is no alternative solution to prevent egregious amounts of slab to
> be allocated in a disjoint cpuset that is supposedly mem_exclusive.

The amount of memory is limited by the size of a slab page. If the process
goes beyond that amount then the page allocator will come in and enforce
the boundaries.


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