Memory reserves or lack thereof

[Julian Elischer]

On 11/12/12 3:49 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 12 November 2012 15:26, Alan Cox <alc at rice.edu> wrote:
>> On 11/12/2012 5:24 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>> .. wait, so what exactly would the difference be between M_NOWAIT and
>>> M_WAITOK?
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>> Whether or not the allocation can sleep until memory becomes available.
> Ok, so we're still maintaining that particular behaviour. Cool.
                     no mem                  |     mem avail
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M_WAITOK | wait, then success   |    success           |
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M_NOWAIT |  returns failure        |    success          |
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the question is whether  the top left can ever fail for any other reason.
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