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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2017-06-06 22:20:08 -0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2017-06-06 22:20:08 -0400 |
| commit | 216fe8f021e33c36e3b27c49c9f1951f6b037d7f (patch) | |
| tree | a43daec41b4d3955e7a4f8d0ed0654a7c80527ec /mm/util.c | |
| parent | 9747e2313838ee8f5d8073fd6aa7289255c3c51b (diff) | |
| parent | b29794ec95c6856b316c2295904208bf11ffddd9 (diff) | |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Just some simple overlapping changes in marvell PHY driver
and the DSA core code.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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; |