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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html