On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, David Rientjes wrote: > On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > If the higher order fails in slub then an order 0 alloc is attempted > > without __GFP_NORETRY. In both cases the nofail behavior of the page > > allocator determines the outcode. > > > > Right, I thought you said the slab layer passes __GFP_NOFAIL when there's > no objects available.
Yes, the slab layer calls the page allocator when there are no objects available and passes the __GFP_NOFAIL that the user may have set in the call to the page allocator. Why then add new functions that do the same? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
