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.
 
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