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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] r8169: allocate with GFP_KERNEL flag when able to
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Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:07:17 +0200
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Le lundi 11 octobre 2010 =C3=A0 11:03 -0500, Christoph Lameter a =C3=A9=
crit :
> On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>=20
> > 8 in the <pagesperslab> column just says that : order-3 pages, even=
 for
> > small allocations.
>=20
> Those allocations will fallback to smaller allocs if the page allocat=
or
> has trouble satisfying those requests.
>=20

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

Thanks