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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 00:46:27 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [patch] mempool-2.5.1-D2
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Hi!

>  - mempool_alloc(), if called from a process context, never fails. This
>    simplifies lowlevel IO code (which often must not fail) visibly.

Really? I do not see how you can guarantee this on machine with finite
ammount of memory.
								Pavel
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