Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:18:18 -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 Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Matthew Dobson wrote:

> > All subsystems will now get more complicated by having to add this 
> > emergency functionality?
> 
> Certainly not.  Only subsystems that want to use emergency pools will get
> more complicated.  If you have a suggestion as to how to implement a
> similar feature that is completely transparent to its users, I would *love*

I thought the earlier __GFP_CRITICAL was a good idea.

> to hear it.  I have tried to keep the changes to implement this
> functionality to a minimum.  As the patches currently stand, existing slab
> allocator and mempool users can continue using these subsystems without
> modification.

The patches are extensive and the required changes to subsystems in order 
to use these pools are also extensive.

> > There surely must be a better way than revising all subsystems for 
> > critical allocations.
> Again, I could not find any way to implement this functionality without
> forcing the users of the functionality to make some, albeit very minor,
> changes.  Specific suggestions are more than welcome! :)

Gfp flag? Better memory reclaim functionality?
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