On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 11:33 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > No, the forced allocation is to test the allocation hardness at that > > point in time. I could not think of another way to test that than to > > actually to an allocation. > > Typically we do this by checking the number of free pages in a zone > compared to the high low limits. See mmzone.h.
True, I did think about that and started out that way but saw myself duplicating a lot of the page allocation code. I'll give it another try... see if I can factor out the common parts without too much duplication. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
