On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Matthew Dobson wrote:
> Using this new approach, a subsystem can create a mempool and then pass a
> pointer to this mempool on to all its slab allocations. Anytime one of its
> slab allocations needs to allocate memory that memory will be allocated
> through the specified mempool, rather than through alloc_pages_node() directly.
All subsystems will now get more complicated by having to add this
emergency functionality?
> Feedback on these patches (against 2.6.16-rc1) would be greatly appreciated.
There surely must be a better way than revising all subsystems for
critical allocations.
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