> That sounds like overkill. There are not so many free pages in a > typical server system.
As Fengguang said -- memory error handling is tricky. Lots of things could be done in theory, but they all have a cost in testing and maintenance. In general they are only worth doing if the situation is common and represents a significant percentage of the total pages of a relevant server workload. -Andi -- a...@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/