On (01/01/11 12:22), Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On 12/30/2010 3:01 PM, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > >Hello, > >Below is part 2 of changes to use non-throwing operator delete in cpu/* > >classes (for review). > > > >I have a question - should we remove package and core in case of (e.g.) cpu > >allocation error? > >Something like this: > > first, thanks for chasing this stuff down.... > > actually, thinking more about this.... if this kind of allocation > fails, then PowerTOP is mostly dead in the water for everythign > else... and as far as I'm concerned we can just abort and exit. > This isn't the kernel where memory is always low.. this is userspace > where the kernel will give us memory until it really really can't... > (which would imply that WE, powertop, are leaking memory, which means > exting is the right thing) >
Hello,
> which would imply that WE, powertop, are leaking memory, which means exting
> is the right thing
I fully agree here. If we leaked so hard - the only right thing to do is to
exit.
Sergey
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