Re: upcoming kerneloops.org item: get_page_from_freelist

[David Rientjes]

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> It might make more sense to make a __GFP_WAIT allocation set the 
> ALLOC_HARDER bit _if_ it repeats. 

This would make sense, but only for !__GFP_FS, since otherwise the oom 
killer will free some memory on an allowed node when reclaim fails and we 
don't otherwise want to deplete memory reserves.
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