objcache depot not used?

Simon 'corecode' Schubert corecode at fs.ei.tum.de
Tue Jan 29 03:38:17 PST 2008


Matthew Dillon wrote:
    The objcache_put() path cannot allocate a magazine without potentially
    deadlocking the memory subsystem
How would that happen?  We'd have to be in an extremely low memory 
situation, I guess?  We could *try* allocating memory (M_NULLOK) and if 
that fails, we just go on and free the object.

cheers
  simon
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