Re: [PATCH] Remove OOM killer from try_to_free_pages / all_unreclaimable braindamage

Nikita Danilov
2004-11-06T11:37:23Z

Andrea Arcangeli writes:
> On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 12:26:57PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > need to be performed and have no failure path. For example __GFP_REPEAT.
>
> all allocations should have a failure path to avoid deadlocks. But in

This is not currently possible for a complex operation that allocates
multiple pages and has always complete as a whole.

We need page-reservation API of some sort. There were several attempts
to introduce this, but none get into mainline.

Nikita.