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SubjectRe: [PATCH/RFC] NOMMU: drop page cache whenever any alloc fails due to low memory
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On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 10:22 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> From: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
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> Since no-mmu systems tend to be memory constrained, we want to drop all
> of the page cache whenever memory gets low. The only other option is to
> invoke the oom killer, and clearly that's not ideal.

Uhm,.. normally reclaim will already try to drop pagecache.


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