Re: [PATCH] add vmalloc stats to meminfo
William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Sun, 15 Sep 2002 00:17:27 -0700
On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 12:11:57AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> Also, dynamic vmalloc allocations may very well be starved by boot-time
> allocations on systems where much vmallocspace is required for IO memory.
> The failure mode of such is effectively deadlock, since they block
> indefinitely waiting for permanent boot-time allocations to be freed up.
This is dead wrong. NFI wtf I was thinking. Ignore that one.
Bill
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