Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Jul 1998 20:43:25 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Gerard Roudier <> | Subject | Re: Strange interrupt behaviour |
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On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Gerard Roudier wrote: > > > > This perhaps _almost_ guarantees that you will succeed the allocation > > _once_, but the problem is to _almost_ guarantee that you will succeed > > _most_ of the time. > > No, the problem is to guarantee that you will always succeed under any > reasonable load (it's obviously quite ok to have fork() fail with ENOMEM > when we really are very low on memory).
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> I'd be thrilled to hear about results or better simulations, but there is > a point where we can say "enough", as the emails on this are starting to > hide more interesting stuff for me.
If you aren't convinced at this point, then you are probably unconvincible at the moment.
Let me tell you that I am convinced that trying to guarantee more that 1 PAGE granularity allocation on a full memory system is a _very_ _broken_ approach.
BTW, I agree with you on the point that it is enough for this thread.
Regards, Gerard.
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