Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc andkzalloc

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Aug 25 2010 - 09:35:24 EST


On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 09:20 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> Well, if all of these users start having their own private pools of
> emergency memory, I'm not sure that's such a great idea either.

That's a secondary problem, and could be reduced by something like the
memory reservation system I provided in the swap-over-nfs patches. Of
course, when all these users can actually happen concurrently there's
really nothing much you can do about it.


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