Re: the new VMt

[Alan Cox]

> > 2 active processes, no swap
> > 
> > #1                                  #2
> > kmalloc 32K                         kmalloc 16K
> > OK                                  OK
> > kmalloc 16K                         kmalloc 32K
> > block                                       block
> > 
> 
> ... and we get two wakeup_kswapd()s.  kswapd has PF_MEMALLOC and so is
> able to eat memory which processes #1 and #2 are not allowed to touch.

'no swap'

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