On Wed 04-04-18 08:59:01, Steven Rostedt wrote:
[...]
> + /*
> + * Check if the available memory is there first.
> + * Note, si_mem_available() only gives us a rough estimate of available
> + * memory. It may not be accurate. But we don't care, we just want
> + * to prevent doing any allocation when it is obvious that it is
> + * not going to succeed.
> + */
> + i = si_mem_available();
> + if (i < nr_pages)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +
>
> Better?
I must be really missing something here. How can that work at all for
e.g. the zone_{highmem/movable}. You will get false on the above tests
even when you will have hard time to allocate anything from your
destination zones.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
