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SubjectRe: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> If the higher order fails in slub then an order 0 alloc is attempted
> without __GFP_NORETRY. In both cases the nofail behavior of the page
> allocator determines the outcode.
>

Right, I thought you said the slab layer passes __GFP_NOFAIL when there's
no objects available.


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