Subj : [$] Toward a real "too small to fail" rule
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From : LWN.net
Date : Mon Mar 18 2024 15:30:06

[$] Toward a real "too small to fail" rule

Date:
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:17:14 +0000

Description:
Kernel developers have long been told that any attempt to allocate memory
might fail, so their code must be prepared for memory to be unavailable.
Informally, though, the kernel's memory-management subsystem implements a
policy whereby requests below a certain size will not fail (in process
context, at least), regardless of
how tight memory may be.  A recent discussion on the linux-mm list has
looked at the idea of making the "too small to
fail" rule a policy that developers can rely on.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/964793/


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