Direct reclaim (in the cgroup variant) at it's work. We had a couple of flamewars on this before, but this trivial example with reclaim from the most simple case (swap space) shows that we really should never reclaim from memory allocation callers for stack usage reasons. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>