> Higher order allocation - imho we can fix that too, eventually, however it's a lot
> more work. First we have to have reliable physical defragmentation.
>
> > And if we are OOM - we want to return NULL
>
> What good does that do?
It allows us to continue. It avoids the deadlocks. It lets the caller
make an intelligent decision.
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