Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Sep 2000 17:26:59 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: the new VM |
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On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > i think the GFP_USER case should do the oom logic within __alloc_pages(), > > What's the difference of implementing the logic outside alloc_pages? > Putting the logic inside looks not clean design to me.
it gives consistency and simplicity. The allocators themselves do not have to care about oom.
Ingo
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