Re: out_of_memory() heuristic broken for different mem configurations

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Thu, 8 Nov 2001 14:54:00 -0200 (BRST)


On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> I remember Linus had a reasoning for the "scan _ALL_ ptes until
> success" behaviour.

Oh, I agree with that.

The problem is the "if no success, scan ALL ptes again
in an infinite loop" ;)

Rik

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