Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/6] Create Critical Page Pool

Rik van Riel
2005-12-14T13:31:13Z

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Matthew Dobson wrote:

> Create the basic Critical Page Pool. Any allocation specifying
> __GFP_CRITICAL will, as a last resort before failing the allocation, try
> to get a page from the critical pool. For now, only singleton (order 0)
> pages are supported.

How are you going to limit the number of GFP_CRITICAL
allocations to something smaller than the number of
pages in the pool ?

Unless you can do that, all guarantees are off...

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