On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:58:11 -0800 Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If the pages for a subpool are reserved, then the reservations have > already been accounted for in the global pool. Therefore, when > requesting a new reservation (such as for a mapping) for the subpool > do not count again in global pool. However, when actually allocating > a page for the subpool decrement global reserve count to correspond to > with decrement in global free pages. The last sentence made my brain hurt. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>