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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] r8169: allocate with GFP_KERNEL flag when able to
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Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:03:17 -0500 (CDT)
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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.