linux-kernel - Re: __GFP_REPEAT usage in fq_alloc

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Date:   Mon, 9 Jan 2017 09:53:42 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: __GFP_REPEAT usage in fq_alloc_node

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org> wrote:

> What about those non-default configurations. Do they really want to
> invoke the OOM killer rather than fallback to the vmalloc?

In our case, we use 4096 slots per fq, so that is a 16KB memory allocation.
And these allocations happen right after boot, while we have plenty of
non fragmented memory.

Presumably falling back to vmalloc() would be just fine.