Re: [PATCH] mm: clarify why we want kmalloc before falling backto vmallock

[Chris Wilson]

subject s/vmallock/vmalloc/

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:09:32AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> While converting drm_[cm]alloc* helpers to kvmalloc* variants Chris
> Wilson has wondered why we want to try kmalloc before vmalloc fallback
> even for larger allocations requests. Let's clarify that one larger
> physically contiguous block is less likely to fragment memory than many
> scattered pages which can prevent more large blocks from being created.
> 
> Suggested-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

It helped me understand the decisions made by the code, so
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre