Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:16:19 -0500 (CDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc |
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, David Rientjes wrote:
> Because we can remove the flag, remove branches from the page allocator > slowpath, and none of these allocations actually are dependent on > __GFP_NOFAIL since they are all under PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER.
Then we can simply remove __GFP_NOFAIL? Functions are only needed for higher order allocs that can fail?
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