Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:21:31 +0200 |
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On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 16:11 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > We already have __GFP_NOFAIL behavior for slab allocations since > a __GFP_NOFAIL flag is passed through to the page allocator if no objects > are available. > > The page allocator will do the same as when called directly with > __GFP_NOFAIL and so we have consistent behavior regardless of the > allocator used.
Thank's for quoting the context to which you're replying, that really helps parsing things..
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