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Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 01:07:54 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: remove kmem_zalloc_greedy
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I like killing it, but shouldn't we just try a normal kmem_zalloc?
At least for the fallback it's the right thing, and even for an
order 2 allocation it seems like a useful first try.