Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/6] Critical Page Pool

Andrea Arcangeli
2005-12-14T12:01:54Z

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 11:08:41AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> because reserved memory pool would have to be "sum of all network
> interface bandwidths * ammount of time expected to survive without
> network" which is way too much.

Yes, a global pool isn't really useful. A per-subsystem pool would be
more reasonable...

> gigabytes into your machine. But don't go introducing infrastructure
> that _can't_ be used right.

Agreed, the current design of the patch can't be used right.