Re: [PATCH] xfs: remove kmem_zalloc_greedy

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 11:54:20AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > Or maybe I've misunderstood, and you're asking if we should try
> > kmem_zalloc(4 pages), then kmem_zalloc(1 page), and only then switch to
> > the __vmalloc calls?
> 
> Just call kmem_zalloc_large() for 4 pages without a fallback on
> failure - that's exactly how we handle allocations for things like
> the 64k xattr buffers....

Yeah, that sounds fine.  I didn't remember that we actually tried
kmalloc before vmalloc for kmem_zalloc_large.