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author | Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> | 2005-05-01 08:58:36 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-05-01 08:58:36 -0700 |
commit | b84a35be0285229b0a8a5e2e04d79360c5b75562 (patch) | |
tree | 3ff63fde8534eb615b408d047b461015781f6a5b /README | |
parent | 8e30f272a93ec9c1d5c305c5040dfaebc880499d (diff) |
[PATCH] mempool: NOMEMALLOC and NORETRY
Mempools have 2 problems.
The first is that mempool_alloc can possibly get stuck in __alloc_pages
when they should opt to fail, and take an element from their reserved pool.
The second is that it will happily eat emergency PF_MEMALLOC reserves
instead of going to their reserved pools.
Fix the first by passing __GFP_NORETRY in the allocation calls in
mempool_alloc. Fix the second by introducing a __GFP_MEMPOOL flag which
directs the page allocator not to allocate from the reserve pool.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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