Re: Ideas for memory management hackers.

[Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl>]

On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Benjamin C.R. LaHaise wrote:

> ...
> > I think I'll send it to Linus (together with Zlatko's
> > big-order hack) as a bug-fix (we're on feature-freeze after all:)
> > for inclusion in 2.1.72...
> 
> Hrmpf - what is Zlatko's big-order hack?

You can (at least) get it from my homepage at 
http://www.fys.ruu.nl/~riel, and maybe from Zlatko's
homepage (if he has one).

It is a patch that makes sure that there are at least
min_free_pages/2 pages in 4-page chunks available...
This way kernel functions (network, soundcard) can always
allocate (at least) 16kb chunks of memory. This solves
quite some crashes...

Rik.

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