Re: [13/18] x86_64: Allow fallback for the stack

Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04T17:40:49Z

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.