Re: [PATCH 00/28] Swap over NFS -v16

[Pekka J Enberg]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Humm, and here I sit staring at the screen. Perhaps I should go get my
> morning juice, but...
> 
>   if (mem_reserve_kmalloc_charge(my_res, sizeof(*foo), 0)) {
>     foo = kmalloc(sizeof(*foo), gfp|__GFP_MEMALLOC)
>     if (!kmem_is_emergency(foo))
>       mem_reserve_kmalloc_charge(my_res, -sizeof(*foo), 0)
>   } else
>     foo = kmalloc(sizeof(*foo), gfp);
> 
> Just doesn't look too pretty..
> 
> And needing to always account the allocation seems wrong.. but I'll take
> poison and see if that wakes up my mind.

Hmm, perhaps this is just hand-waving but why don't you have a 
kmalloc_reserve() function in SLUB that does the accounting properly?

			Pekka
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