On Thu, 2015-06-11 at 18:18 -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > But, is there any fallback to a single page allocation somewhere else? > If this is the only way to get memory, we might want to add a single > alloc_page path that won't trigger compaction but is at least able to > wait for kswapd to make progress. Sure, there is a fallback to order-0 in both skb_page_frag_refill() and alloc_skb_with_frags() They also use __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY -- 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>