Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc

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On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 16:11 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> We already have __GFP_NOFAIL behavior for slab allocations since
> a __GFP_NOFAIL flag is passed through to the page allocator if no objects
> are available.
> 
> The page allocator will do the same as when called directly with
> __GFP_NOFAIL and so we have consistent behavior regardless of the
> allocator used.

Thank's for quoting the context to which you're replying, that really
helps parsing things..

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