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

Eric Dumazet
2010-10-11T16:07:23Z

Le lundi 11 octobre 2010 à 11:03 -0500, Christoph Lameter a écrit :
> 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.
>

Interesting, do you have an idea when this feature was added ?

Thanks