Re: [PATCH 18/19] crypto: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT

[Herbert Xu]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 01:08:11PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> __GFP_REPEAT has a rather weak semantic but since it has been introduced
> around 2.6.12 it has been ignored for low order allocations.
> 
> lzo_init uses __GFP_REPEAT to allocate LZO1X_MEM_COMPRESS 16K. This is
> order 3 allocation request and __GFP_REPEAT is ignored for this size
> as well as all <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY requests.
> 
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

Could you please send this patch to the linux-crypto list? Thanks.
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