Messages in this thread | | | From | Nikita Danilov <> | Date | Sat, 6 Nov 2004 14:37:05 +0300 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Remove OOM killer from try_to_free_pages / all_unreclaimable braindamage |
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Andrea Arcangeli writes: > On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 12:26:57PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > need to be performed and have no failure path. For example __GFP_REPEAT. > > all allocations should have a failure path to avoid deadlocks. But in
This is not currently possible for a complex operation that allocates multiple pages and has always complete as a whole.
We need page-reservation API of some sort. There were several attempts to introduce this, but none get into mainline.
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