Re: [PATCH] mm-slab: allocate kmem_cache with __GFP_REPEAT

[Pekka Enberg]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > > > [PATCH v2] slab: shrinks sizeof(struct kmem_cache)
> >
> > On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > This will solve the issue for small nr_cpu_ids but those with 4k cpus will
> > > still have the issue.
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Applied, thanks! Do we still want the __GFP_REPEAT patch from Konstantin
> > though?

On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Those with 4k cpus will be thankful I guess.

OTOH, I'm slightly worried that it might mask a real problem 
with GFP_KERNEL not being aggressive enough. Mel?

			Pekka
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