On Mon, 19 Sep 2016, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > There's no __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY, so it clearly wasn't the > opportunistic "initial higher-order allocation". The logical conclusion is > that it was a genuine order-3 allocation. 1kB allocation using order-3 would > silently fail without OOM or warning, and then fallback to order-0. Sorry if you really want an object that is greater than page size then the slab allocators wont be able to satisfy that with an order 0 allocation. -- 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>