On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What about those non-default configurations. Do they really want to > invoke the OOM killer rather than fallback to the vmalloc? In our case, we use 4096 slots per fq, so that is a 16KB memory allocation. And these allocations happen right after boot, while we have plenty of non fragmented memory. Presumably falling back to vmalloc() would be just fine. -- 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>