On 08/09/2012 05:20 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
The intention is that an allocation can fail but each subsequent attempt will try harder until there is success. Each allocation request does a portion of the necessary work to spread the cost between multiple requests.
At some point we need to stop doing that work, though. Otherwise we could end up back at the problem where way too much memory gets evicted, and we get swap storms. -- 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/
