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SubjectRe: %u-order allocation failed
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
> On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> >
> > Linus, what do you think: is it OK if fork randomly fails with very small
> > probability or not?
>
> I've never seen it, I've never heard it reported, and I _know_ that
> vmalloc() causes slowdowns.
>
> In short, I'm not switching to a vmalloc() fork.

The patch uses buddy by default and does vmalloc only if buddy fails.
Slowdown is not an issue here.

Mikulas

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