Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH/RFC] NOMMU: drop page cache whenever any alloc fails due to low memory | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:30:38 +0200 |
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On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 10:22 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > From: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com> > > 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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