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

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, David Rientjes wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> > If the higher order fails in slub then an order 0 alloc is attempted
> > without __GFP_NORETRY. In both cases the nofail behavior of the page
> > allocator determines the outcode.
> >
>
> Right, I thought you said the slab layer passes __GFP_NOFAIL when there's
> no objects available.

Yes, the slab layer calls the page allocator when there are no objects
available and passes the __GFP_NOFAIL that the user may have set in the
call to the page allocator.

Why then add new functions that do the same?



--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html


[Index of Archives]     [Linux RAID Wiki]     [ATA RAID]     [Linux SCSI Target Infrastructure]     [Linux Block]     [Linux IDE]     [Linux SCSI]     [Linux Hams]     [Device Mapper]     [Device Mapper Cryptographics]     [Kernel]     [Linux Admin]     [Linux Net]     [GFS]     [RPM]     [git]     [Yosemite Forum]


  Powered by Linux