Messages in this thread | | | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: Respin: [PATCH] mm: limit lowmem_reserve | Date | Thu, 6 Apr 2006 12:58:40 +1000 |
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On Thursday 06 April 2006 12:55, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Thursday 06 April 2006 12:43, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote: > > > It is possible with a low enough lowmem_reserve ratio to make > > > zone_watermark_ok fail repeatedly if the lower_zone is small enough. > > > > Is that actually a problem? > > Every single call to get_page_from_freelist will call on zone reclaim. It > seems a problem to me if every call to __alloc_pages will do that?
every call to __alloc_pages of that zone I mean
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