On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Ravi K wrote: > --- 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? That should work, indeed. Rik -- Shortwave goes a long way: irc.starchat.net #swl http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ -- 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/
