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Date:   Tue, 7 Mar 2017 01:07:54 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:     Brian Foster <bfoster@...hat.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
        Xiong Zhou <xzhou@...hat.com>, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: remove kmem_zalloc_greedy

I like killing it, but shouldn't we just try a normal kmem_zalloc?
At least for the fallback it's the right thing, and even for an
order 2 allocation it seems like a useful first try.

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