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Subject: Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages
To: phillips@bonn-fries.net (Daniel Phillips)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:19:22 +0000 (GMT)
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> Higher order allocation - imho we can fix that too, eventually, however it's a lot
> more work.  First we have to have reliable physical defragmentation.
> 
> > And if we are OOM - we want to return NULL
> 
> What good does that do?

It allows us to continue. It avoids the deadlocks. It lets the caller
make an intelligent decision.

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