Re: [RFC] mempool_alloc() pre-allocated object usage

Paul Mundt wrote:

The downside to this is that some people may be expecting that
pre-allocated elements are used as reserve space for when regular
allocations aren't possible. In which case, this would break that
behaviour.

This is the original intent of the mempool. There must be objects in reserve so that the machine doesn't deadlock on critical allocations (ie. disk writes) under memory pressure.

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				Brian Gerst
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