Re: Respin: [PATCH] mm: limit lowmem_reserve

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On Thursday 06 April 2006 12:43, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Con Kolivas <[email protected]> wrote:
> > It is possible with a low enough lowmem_reserve ratio to make
> >  zone_watermark_ok fail repeatedly if the lower_zone is small enough.
>
> Is that actually a problem?

Every single call to get_page_from_freelist will call on zone reclaim. It 
seems a problem to me if every call to __alloc_pages will do that?

Cheers,
Con
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