On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Alex Bligh - linux-kernel wrote:
> --On Tuesday, 09 October, 2001 12:21 AM +0200 Mikulas Patocka
> <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> wrote:
>
> > If you have more than half of virtual space free, you can always find two
> > consecutive free pages. Period.
>
> Now calculate the probability of not being able to do this in physical
> space, assuming even page dispersion, and many pages free. You will
> find it is very small. This may give you a clue as to what the problem
> actually is.
My patch is not providing "very small probability". It is providing _zero_
probability that fork fails. (assiming that there is more than half
vmalloc space free).
I'm just tired of this stupid flamewar.
Linus, what do you think: is it OK if fork randomly fails with very small
probability or not?
Are you going to accept patch that maps task_struct into virtual space if
buddy allocator fails or not?
Mikulas
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