On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:06:06AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> > > drm_malloc* has grown their own kmalloc with vmalloc fallback > implementations. MM has grown kvmalloc* helpers in the meantime. Let's > use those because it a) reduces the code and b) MM has a better idea > how to implement fallbacks (e.g. do not vmalloc before kmalloc is tried > with __GFP_NORETRY). Better? The same idea. The only difference I was reluctant to hand out large pages for long lived objects. If that's the wisdom of the core mm, so be it. Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -Chris -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- 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>
