Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 6 Nov 2004 16:32:09 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Remove OOM killer from try_to_free_pages / all_unreclaimable braindamage |
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On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 02:37:05PM +0300, Nikita Danilov wrote: > We need page-reservation API of some sort. There were several attempts > to introduce this, but none get into mainline.
they're already in under the name of mempools
I'm perfectly aware the fs tends to be the less correct places in terms of allocations, and luckily it's not an heavy memory user, so I still have to see a deadlock in getblk or create_buffers or similar. It's mostly a correctness issue (math proof it can't deadlock, right now it can if more tasks all get stuck in getblk at the same time during a hard oom condition etc..). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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