Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:30:28 -0500 (EST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/6] Create Critical Page Pool |
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On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Matthew Dobson wrote:
> Create the basic Critical Page Pool. Any allocation specifying > __GFP_CRITICAL will, as a last resort before failing the allocation, try > to get a page from the critical pool. For now, only singleton (order 0) > pages are supported.
How are you going to limit the number of GFP_CRITICAL allocations to something smaller than the number of pages in the pool ?
Unless you can do that, all guarantees are off...
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