Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 10 May 2001 21:52:41 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] allocation looping + kswapd CPU cycles |
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Hi,
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:49:05PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Back to the main discussion --- I guess we could make __GFP_FAIL (with > __GFP_WAIT set :)) allocations actually fail if "try_to_free_pages()" does > not make any progress (ie returns zero). But maybe thats a bit too > extreme.
That would seem to be a reasonable interpretation of __GFP_FAIL + __GFP_WAIT, yes.
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