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Paul Mundt wrote: > The downside to this is that some people may be expecting that > pre-allocated elements are used as reserve space for when regular > allocations aren't possible. In which case, this would break that > behaviour. This is the original intent of the mempool. There must be objects in reserve so that the machine doesn't deadlock on critical allocations (ie. disk writes) under memory pressure. -- Brian Gerst - 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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