On Mon, 14 May 2007, Matt Mackall wrote: > privileged thread unprivileged greedy process > kmem_cache_alloc(...) > adds new slab page from lowmem pool
Yes but it returns an object for the privileged thread. Is that not enough? > do_io() > kmem_cache_alloc(...) > kmem_cache_alloc(...) > kmem_cache_alloc(...) > kmem_cache_alloc(...) > kmem_cache_alloc(...) > ... > eats it all > kmem_cache_alloc(...) -> ENOMEM > who ate my donuts?! > > But I think this solution is somehow overkill. If we only care about > this issue in the OOM avoidance case, then our rank reduces to a > boolean. > > -- > Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
