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Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 01:54:49 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: %u-order allocation failed
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On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> >
> > Linus, what do you think: is it OK if fork randomly fails with very small
> > probability or not?
> 
> I've never seen it, I've never heard it reported, and I _know_ that
> vmalloc() causes slowdowns.
> 
> In short, I'm not switching to a vmalloc() fork.

The patch uses buddy by default and does vmalloc only if buddy fails.
Slowdown is not an issue here.

Mikulas

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