On Thu, 17 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > 2. It seems to be based on global ordering of allocations which is > > not possible given large systems and the relativistic constraints > > of physics. Ordering of events get more expensive the bigger the > > system is. > > > > How does this system work if you can just order events within > > a processor? Or within a node? Within a zone? > > /me fails again.. > > Its about ensuring ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS memory only reaches PF_MEMALLOC > processes, not joe random's pi calculator.
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