linux-kernel - Re : .... get_page_from_freelist : MInority Suggestion to accept GFP

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Message-Id: <61448F53-1F7A-47EF-AAF3-CB2A46AB8009@earthlink.net>
Date:	Thu, 2 Jul 2009 20:43:26 -0700
From:	Mitchell Erblich <erblichs@...thlink.net>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re : .... get_page_from_freelist : MInority Suggestion to accept GFP_NOFAIL accept during boot

Group,


	If I may suggest a minority opinion about the depreciating of the  
GFP_NOFAIL flag..

	I saw no discussion on the acceptance of using this flag during boot  
and shortly
	after boot.

	Many kernel structures require memory and thus should guarantee memory
	before they continue.
	
	As Linux is moved within embedded environments with smaller amounts of
	physical memory, the chance that earlier mem failures becomes higher.

	For this logic alone, my minority opinion is to not depreciate the  
GFP_NOFAIL flag.

	Mitchell Erblich
	

	
	
	

	
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