Restrict objects from reserve slabs (ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS) to allocation
contexts that are entitled to it. This is done to ensure reserve pages don't
leak out and get consumed.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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include/linux/slub_def.h |1
mm/slab.c| 59 +
On Friday 14 December 2007 07:39, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Restrict objects from reserve slabs (ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS) to
> allocation contexts that are entitled to it. This is done to ensure
> reserve pages don't leak out and get consumed.
Tighter definitions of "leak out" and "get consumed" would b
On Friday 14 December 2007 14:51, I wrote:
> On Friday 14 December 2007 07:39, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Note that false sharing of slab pages is still possible between two
> unrelated writeout processes, both of which obey rules for their own
> writeout path, but the pinned combination does not. Th
