From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:40:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [13/18] x86_64: Allow fallback for the stack In-Reply-To: <200710041425.43343.ak@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <20071004035935.042951211@sgi.com> <200710041356.51750.ak@suse.de> <1191499692.22357.4.camel@twins> <200710041425.43343.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andi Kleen Cc: Peter Zijlstra , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, travis@sgi.com List-ID: On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > The order-1 allocation failures where GFP_ATOMIC, because SLUB uses !0 > > order for everything. > > slub is wrong then. Can it be fixed? SLUB in mm kernels was using higher order allocations for some slabs for the last 6 months or so. Not true for upstream. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org