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From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Respin: [PATCH] mm: limit lowmem_reserve
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 12:55:54 +1000
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On Thursday 06 April 2006 12:43, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote:
> > It is possible with a low enough lowmem_reserve ratio to make
> >  zone_watermark_ok fail repeatedly if the lower_zone is small enough.
>
> Is that actually a problem?

Every single call to get_page_from_freelist will call on zone reclaim. It 
seems a problem to me if every call to __alloc_pages will do that?

Cheers,
Con