Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
The basic premises is that network sockets serving the VM need undisturbed
functionality in the face of severe memory shortage.
This patch-set provides the framework to provide this.
Hmmm.. Is it not possible to avoid the memory pools by
guaranteeing that a certain number of page is easily reclaimable?
No.
You need to guarantee that the memory is not gobbled up by
another subsystem, but remains available for use by *this*
subsystem. Otherwise you could still deadlock.
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