Allowing small allocations to fail
Allowing small allocations to fail
[Kernel] Posted Mar 11, 2015 0:47 UTC (Wed) by corbet
As Michal Hocko noted at the beginning of his session at the 2015 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory Management Summit, the news that the memory-management code will normally retry small allocations indefinitely rather than returning a failure status came as a surprise to many developers. In this session, the assembled group attempted to come up with ways to safely change this behavior. Click below (subscribers only) for the full report from LSFMM 2015.