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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: lwoodman@redhat.com
Cc: arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: __alloc_pages() failures reported due to fragmentation
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 05:04:55 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061103.050455.25477833.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <454B3890.8070607@redhat.com>

From: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 07:39:44 -0500

> Hi Arjan.  Right but this just includes __GFP_REPEAT in the mask so we can
> defrag in __alloc_pages and only if GFP_WAIT was passed in origionally.

Indeed, quoting that small snippet of the patch was deceptive :-)

Arjan, gfp_mask is set to sk->sk_allocation, and we just add a bit
into it conditionally.

      reply	other threads:[~2006-11-03 13:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-03 12:13 __alloc_pages() failures reported due to fragmentation Larry Woodman
2006-11-03 12:21 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-03 12:39   ` Larry Woodman
2006-11-03 13:04     ` David Miller [this message]

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