Re: the new VM

[Ingo Molnar]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> > i think the GFP_USER case should do the oom logic within __alloc_pages(),
> 
> What's the difference of implementing the logic outside alloc_pages?
> Putting the logic inside looks not clean design to me.

it gives consistency and simplicity. The allocators themselves do not have
to care about oom.

        Ingo

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/