On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Dave Chinner wrote: > Fundamentally, if you just switch off memory reclaim to avoid the > latencies involved with direct memory reclaim, then all you'll get > instead is ENOMEM because there's no memory available and none will be > reclaimed. That's even more fatal for the system than doing reclaim. Not for my use cases here. No one will die if reclaim happens but its bad for the bottom line. Reducing the chance of memory reclaim occurring in a critical section is sufficient. -- 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>