Re: the new VM

From: Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 08:02:58 EST


On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> Sorry I totally disagree. If GFP_KERNEL are garanteeded to succeed
> that is a showstopper bug. [...]

why?

> machine power for simulations runs out of memory all the time. If you
> put this kind of obvious deadlock into the main kernel allocator

FYI, i havent put it there.

        Ingo

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