Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:50:52 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fork() failing |
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > > There are also some platforms using 1-order allocations > for page tables as well. > > But I don't know if I agree with this special casing.
Well, it's not really any _new_ special casing - we've always had the special case for order-0, the patch just expands it to order-1 too.
That said, I think a separate flag saying "don't try too hard", which can be used for all orders, including 0 and 1, and just says that "ok, we want you to balance things, but if this allocation fails that's not a big deal".
So the flag would just always be implicit in allocations of higher orders, because big orders are basically impossible to guarantee..
Linus
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