--- Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> wrote: > The big problem is teaching kswapd to not try and > free pages in this zone, since it will never succeed > if you have all pages used and you don't want kswapd > to loop ;) Can it be handled by one additional check in __alloc_pages()? If need_balance is never set for the new zone, kswapd shouldn't touch it. Of course, users of the new zone should be coded to handle null return values. Apart from this, is there anything else to worry about? -Thanks, Ravi. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
