Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/7] UBC: kernel memory accounting (core) | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:22:21 +0100 |
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Ar Mer, 2006-08-16 am 12:15 -0700, ysgrifennodd Rohit Seth: > resources will be allocated/freed in context of a user process. And at > that time we know if a allocation should succeed or not. So we may > actually not need to track kernel pages that closely.
Quite the reverse, tracking kernel pages is critical, user pages kind of balance out for many cases kernel ones don't.
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