Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:10:34 -0800
From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il>
Cc: colpatch@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/8] Critical Page Pool
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Avi wrote:
> This may not be possible. What if subsystem A depends on subsystem B to 
> do its work, both are critical, and subsystem A allocated all the memory 
> reserve?

Apparently Matthew's subsystems have some knowable upper limits on
their critical memory needs, so that your scenario can be avoided.

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