Reservations for must-succeed memory allocations
Reservations for must-succeed memory allocations
When the schedule for the 2015 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory Management Summit was laid out, its authors optimistically set aside 30 minutes on the first day for the thorny issue of memory-allocation problems in low-memory situations. That session (covered here) didn't get past the issue of whether small allocations should be allowed to fail, so the remainder of the discussion, focused on finding better solutions for the problem of allocations that simply cannot fail, was pushed into a plenary session on the second day.
With this article, LWN's coverage of the memory-management track at LSFMM 2015 is complete; sessions from the filesystems track are being added as well. It all can be found at the LWN LSFMM 2015 page.