From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 11:14:54 +0200
> From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> > > __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" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Acked-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
