So if some memory needs to be swapped out to disk (in order to free memory that can be returned to the process calling kmalloc), I understand Disk IO should suffice. But my doubt is how can a filesystem IO help to free memory (so that it can be returned to the process calling kmalloc)?
Ummm ... not sure ... but just a direction to think upon. There memory occupied by VFS / filesystems may be holding some buffers (of certain files). So a file system request may be used to flush these buffers to the disk, and thus free memory to be returned. Thanks, Rajat - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
