Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Jul 2015 14:24:04 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/7] mm: introduce kvmalloc and kvmalloc_node |
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On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 14:13:16 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:
> There's a misunderstanding in regards to the comment: __GFP_NORETRY > doesn't turn direct reclaim or compaction off, it is still attempted and > with the same priority as any other allocation. This only stops the page > allocator from calling the oom killer, which will free memory or panic the > system, and looping when memory is available.
include/linux/gfp.h says
* __GFP_NORETRY: The VM implementation must not retry indefinitely.
Can you suggest something more accurate and complete which we can put there?
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