On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 23:38:05 -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 21:00:58 +0100
> Chris Wilson wrote:
>
> > Just a spark of an idea to see if this is valid.
> >
> > Given extreme memory pressure where we must zap our own caches and
> > bound buffers or else we fail to allocate a str
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 21:00:58 +0100
Chris Wilson wrote:
> Just a spark of an idea to see if this is valid.
>
> Given extreme memory pressure where we must zap our own caches and
> bound buffers or else we fail to allocate a structure, we have a
> choice of propagating that interrupt back to users
Just a spark of an idea to see if this is valid.
Given extreme memory pressure where we must zap our own caches and bound
buffers or else we fail to allocate a structure, we have a choice of
propagating that interrupt back to userspace or to quietly suppress it
in the hope of making the allocation
