Re: __GFP_REPEAT usage in fq_alloc_node

[Eric Dumazet]

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