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SubjectRe: upcoming kerneloops.org item: get_page_from_freelist
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> It might make more sense to make a __GFP_WAIT allocation set the
> ALLOC_HARDER bit _if_ it repeats.

This would make sense, but only for !__GFP_FS, since otherwise the oom
killer will free some memory on an allowed node when reclaim fails and we
don't otherwise want to deplete memory reserves.


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