Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752798AbZFYUgp (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:36:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751397AbZFYUgh (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:36:37 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.33.17]:34697 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751795AbZFYUgg (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:36:36 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=date:from:x-x-sender:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id: references:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:x-system-of-record; b=pG5mKdO+DgY6HKDhLqLi+dZFsRpSYtTdZ4SO32BchPkLz/mc1HQHNHXvauRurjs6e IN/ML1mKu7yVvfqLsJ8FA== Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:36:29 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes X-X-Sender: rientjes@chino.kir.corp.google.com To: Linus Torvalds cc: Theodore Tso , Andrew Morton , penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cl@linux-foundation.org, npiggin@suse.de Subject: Re: upcoming kerneloops.org item: get_page_from_freelist In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20090624123624.26c93459.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090624130121.99321cca.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090624150714.c7264768.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090625132544.GB9995@mit.edu> <20090625193806.GA6472@mit.edu> <20090625194423.GB6472@mit.edu> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-System-Of-Record: true Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 591 Lines: 13 On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > It might make more sense to make a __GFP_WAIT allocation set the > ALLOC_HARDER bit _if_ it repeats. This would make sense, but only for !__GFP_FS, since otherwise the oom killer will free some memory on an allowed node when reclaim fails and we don't otherwise want to deplete memory reserves. -- 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/