On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > We can add an allocation flag (__GFP_NO_CRITICAL?) which can be used by
> > sg_low_malloc() (and other non critical allocations) to fail previously
> > and not print the message.
>
> It is just for debugging. The message can go. If anytbing it would be more
> useful to tack Failed alloc data on the end of /proc/slabinfo
The issue is not the warn message.
Non critical allocations (such as this case of sg_low_malloc()) are trying
to get additional memory to optimize things -- we want the allocator to be
lazy and fail previously instead doing hard work. If kswapd cannot keep up
with the memory pressure, we're surely in a memory shortage state.
Its better to get out of the memory shortage instead running into OOM
because of some optimization, I guess.
Another example of such a flag is swapin readahead.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Feb 28 2001 - 21:00:11 EST