linux-kernel - Re: [13/18] x86_64: Allow fallback for the stack

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710041039000.10854@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:40:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, travis@....com
Subject: Re: [13/18] x86_64: Allow fallback for the stack

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > The order-1 allocation failures where GFP_ATOMIC, because SLUB uses !0
> > order for everything.
> 
> slub is wrong then. Can it be fixed?

SLUB in mm kernels was using higher order allocations for some slabs 
for the last 6 months or so. Not true for upstream.

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