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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2017-06-08 14:14:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2017-06-08 14:14:45 +0200 |
| commit | a43e61842ec55baa486d60eed2a19af67ba78b9f (patch) | |
| tree | 6c3c93f19e3933273b73b9edd16edc146ab18527 /mm/util.c | |
| parent | 5d473fedd17ae3a9f92fb35551e307d01459ea6a (diff) | |
| parent | 50dffe7fad6c156c2928e45c19ff7b86eb951f4c (diff) | |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'net-next/master' into mac80211-next
This brings in commit 7a7c0a6438b8 ("mac80211: fix TX aggregation
start/stop callback race") to allow the follow-up cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/util.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/util.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index 464df3489903..26be6407abd7 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -357,8 +357,11 @@ void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node) WARN_ON_ONCE((flags & GFP_KERNEL) != GFP_KERNEL); /* - * Make sure that larger requests are not too disruptive - no OOM - * killer and no allocation failure warnings as we have a fallback + * We want to attempt a large physically contiguous block first because + * it is less likely to fragment multiple larger blocks and therefore + * contribute to a long term fragmentation less than vmalloc fallback. + * However make sure that larger requests are not too disruptive - no + * OOM killer and no allocation failure warnings as we have a fallback. */ if (size > PAGE_SIZE) { kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NOWARN; |