On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 08:37:36AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > Sounds like SLUB. SLAB would use order-0 as long as things fit. I would > > > hope for SLUB to fallback to order-0 (or order-1 for 8kB) instead of > > > OOM, though. Guess not... > > > > It's already trying to do that, perhaps just some flags need to be > > changed? > > SLUB tries order-N and falls back to order 0 on failure. Right it tries, but Linus apparently got an OOM in the order-N allocation. So somehow the flag combination that it passes first is not preventing the OOM killer. -Andi -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>