Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:59:55 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc |
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> A pool of free pages which is reserved for routines that are doing > page cleaning would probably also be a good idea. Maybe that's just > retrying with GFP_ATOMIC if a normal allocation fails, or maybe we > need our own special pool, or maybe we need to dynamically resize the > GFP_ATOMIC pool based on how many subsystems might need to use it.... >
PF_MEMALLOC is used for those tasks, not GFP_ATOMIC.
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