Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 9 Oct 2001 01:54:49 +0200 (CEST) | From | Mikulas Patocka <> | Subject | Re: %u-order allocation failed |
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On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > > Linus, what do you think: is it OK if fork randomly fails with very small > > probability or not? > > I've never seen it, I've never heard it reported, and I _know_ that > vmalloc() causes slowdowns. > > In short, I'm not switching to a vmalloc() fork.
The patch uses buddy by default and does vmalloc only if buddy fails. Slowdown is not an issue here.
Mikulas
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