Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 9 Oct 2001 01:46:52 +0200 (CEST) | From | Mikulas Patocka <> | Subject | Re: %u-order allocation failed |
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On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Linus, what do you think: is it OK if fork randomly fails with very small > > probability or not? > > Your code doesnt change that behaviour. Not one iota. Do the mathematics, > work out the failure probabilities for page pairs. Now remember that the > vmalloc one has guard pages too. > > You are trying to solve a non problem with a non solution
I asked Linus, not you :-/
It's up to him, if he wants "stability-based-on-probability" algorithms in Linux or not.
Mikulas
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