Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:36:29 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: upcoming kerneloops.org item: get_page_from_freelist |
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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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