Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:57:45 -0800 (PST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/9] Critical Mempools |
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On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Matthew Dobson wrote:
> Using this new approach, a subsystem can create a mempool and then pass a > pointer to this mempool on to all its slab allocations. Anytime one of its > slab allocations needs to allocate memory that memory will be allocated > through the specified mempool, rather than through alloc_pages_node() directly.
All subsystems will now get more complicated by having to add this emergency functionality?
> Feedback on these patches (against 2.6.16-rc1) would be greatly appreciated.
There surely must be a better way than revising all subsystems for critical allocations. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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