From: Michal Hocko <mho...@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 11:14:54 +0200
> From: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
>
> __GFP_REPEAT has a rather weak semantic but since it has been introduced
> around 2.6.12 it has been ignored for low order allocations.
>
> {pud,pmd}_alloc_one is using __GFP_REPEAT but it always allocates from
> pgtable_cache which is initialzed to PAGE_SIZE objects. This means that
> this flag has never been actually useful here because it has always been
> used only for PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY requests.
>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <da...@davemloft.net>
> Cc: linux-a...@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
