Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:57:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
To: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
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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.
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