Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760055AbXJDRkt (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 13:40:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757398AbXJDRkm (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 13:40:42 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:42387 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756659AbXJDRkl (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 13:40:41 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:40:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Andi Kleen cc: Peter Zijlstra , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, travis@sgi.com Subject: Re: [13/18] x86_64: Allow fallback for the stack In-Reply-To: <200710041425.43343.ak@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <20071004035935.042951211@sgi.com> <200710041356.51750.ak@suse.de> <1191499692.22357.4.camel@twins> <200710041425.43343.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 550 Lines: 15 On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > The order-1 allocation failures where GFP_ATOMIC, because SLUB uses !0 > > order for everything. > > slub is wrong then. Can it be fixed? SLUB in mm kernels was using higher order allocations for some slabs for the last 6 months or so. Not true for upstream. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/