Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages | Date | Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:19:22 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Higher order allocation - imho we can fix that too, eventually, however it's a lot > more work. First we have to have reliable physical defragmentation. > > > And if we are OOM - we want to return NULL > > What good does that do?
It allows us to continue. It avoids the deadlocks. It lets the caller make an intelligent decision.
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