Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Sep 2000 16:04:14 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: the new VM |
| |
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Again: the bean counting and all the limit happens at the higher > layer. I shouldn't know anything about it when I play with the lower > layer GFP memory balancing code.
exactly, and this is why if a higher level lets through a GFP_KERNEL, then it *must* succeed. Otherwise either the higher level code is buggy, or the VM balance is buggy, but we want to have clear signs of it.
Ingo
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |