On Mon, 2 Mar 2015, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > > > > You are thinking about an opportunistic allocation attempt in SLAB? > > > > > > > > AFAICT SLAB allocations should trigger reclaim. > > > > > > > > > > Well, let me quote your commit 952f3b51beb5: > > > > This was about global reclaim. Local reclaim is good and that can be > > done via zone_reclaim. > > Right, so the patch is a functional change for zone_reclaim_mode == 1, where > !__GFP_WAIT will prevent it. > My patch is not a functional change, get_page_from_freelist() handles zone_reclaim_mode == 1 properly in the page allocator fastpath. This patch only touches the slowpath. -- 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>