Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:05:47 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc |
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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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