Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 9 Oct 2001 11:45:48 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: %u-order allocation failed |
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Hi!
> > > 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.
You ignored comment about guard pages. Pavel -- Casualities in World Trade Center: 6453 dead inside the building, cryptography in U.S.A. and free speech in Czech Republic. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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