Re: [patch] my latest oom stuff

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Mon, 26 Oct 1998 09:45:34 -0800 (PST)


On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> Here the patch against your pre-2.1.127-1:

I still don't understand why you have to change __get_free_pages(). I see
no advantage to the changes.

I also very strongly disagree with your changes to "try_to_free_pages()",
which makes it _always_ return a success (unless called recursively),
which just obviously cannot be correct - it doesn't give the caller any
information at all (the caller already had the "recursion" information).

Linus

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