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Subject: Re: Memory reserves or lack thereof
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On 12 November 2012 15:26, Alan Cox <alc@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?
>
>
> Whether or not the allocation can sleep until memory becomes available.

Ok, so we're still maintaining that particular behaviour. Cool.



Adrian