linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dma/pool: do not complain if DMA pool is not allocated

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Date:   Thu, 11 Aug 2022 09:28:17 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>,
        John Donnelly <john.p.donnelly@...cle.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma/pool: do not complain if DMA pool is not allocated

On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 11:52:10AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> OK, so I have another machine spewing this warning. Still on an older
> kernel but I do not think the current upstream would be any different in
> that regards. This time the DMA zone is populated and consumed from
> large part and the pool size request is just too large for it:

I can't really parse the last sentence.  What does "consumed from large
part" mean here?