Re: [PATCH 1/2] r8169: allocate with GFP_KERNEL flag when able to sleep

Christoph Lameter
2010-10-11T16:03:20Z

On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> 8 in the <pagesperslab> column just says that : order-3 pages, even for
> small allocations.

Those allocations will fallback to smaller allocs if the page allocator
has trouble satisfying those requests.