Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages | Date | Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:32:46 +0100 |
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On March 7, 2002 03:43 pm, Alan Cox wrote: > > Since there is always at least one freeable page in the system (or we're oom) then > > we just have to find it and we know we can forcibly unmap it. We do need to know > > the total of pinned pages, I should have said locked/dirty/pinned. > > What if I did a 4 page allocation ?
Higher order allocation - imho we can fix that too, eventually, however it's a lot more work. First we have to have reliable physical defragmentation.
> And if we are OOM - we want to return NULL
What good does that do?
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