Re: patch to give kmalloc a chance (RFC)

[Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 27 Sep 2002, Steve Lord wrote:

> I am picturing Rik with shivers going down his spine right now ;-)

Yup ... ;)

> The better way to deal with this is either to have a small pool
> of these structures we can fall back on, or even to fail the I/O.
> The latter will shutdown the filesystem though.

Look at the stuff in mm/mempool.c

It might be just what you need.

Rik
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