Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:34:50 +0200 |
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On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 09:20 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > Well, if all of these users start having their own private pools of > emergency memory, I'm not sure that's such a great idea either.
That's a secondary problem, and could be reduced by something like the memory reservation system I provided in the swap-over-nfs patches. Of course, when all these users can actually happen concurrently there's really nothing much you can do about it.
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