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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] r8169: allocate with GFP_KERNEL flag when able to
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Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:14:32 -0500 (CDT)
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On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> Le lundi 11 octobre 2010 =C3=A0 11:03 -0500, Christoph Lameter a =C3=A9cr=
it :
> > On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >
> > > 8 in the <pagesperslab> column just says that : order-3 pages, even f=
or
> > > 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 ?

A couple of years ago.

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