Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:49:15 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Strange interrupt behaviour |
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On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Rogier Wolff wrote: > > The "right" way to handle this, is to make kmalloc/gfp/whatever > implement this, and allow just a few places to set the flag that > enables getting stuff from the "last resort" pool.
The problem with that is that we really want to have multiple "last-resort" pools.
For example, NFS would probably also be happier with a last-resort pool for kmallocs (of both 8kB and 16kB allocations - we don' tneed a very deep pool, just 2-4 allocations would probably be fine to handle the bad cases), but we do _not_ want to allow NFS starvation to starve fork()'s or vice versa.
I certainly agree with making this a more generic thing, but it mustn't be just a flag that everybody then fights over.
Kubys
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