Re: [PATCH 00/10] foundations for reserve-based allocation

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> We want a guarantee for N bytes from kmalloc(), this translates to a demand
> on the slab allocator for 2*N+m (due to the power-of-two nature of kmalloc 
> slabs), where m is the meta-data needed by the allocator itself.

The guarantee occurs in what context? Looks like its global here but 
allocations may be restricted to a cpuset context? What happens in a 
GFP_THISNODE allocation? Or a memory policy restricted allocations?

> So we need functions translating our demanded kmalloc space into a page
> reserve limit, and then need to provide a reserve of pages.

Only kmalloc? What about skb heads and such?

> And we need to ensure that once we hit the reserve, the slab allocator honours
> the reserve's access. That is, a regular allocation may not get objects from
> a slab allocated from the reserves.

>From a cpuset we may hit the reserves since cpuset memory is out and then 
the rest of the system fails allocations?
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