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authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>2017-06-02 14:46:19 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-06-02 15:07:37 -0700
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mm: clarify why we want kmalloc before falling backto vmallock
While converting drm_[cm]alloc* helpers to kvmalloc* variants Chris Wilson has wondered why we want to try kmalloc before vmalloc fallback even for larger allocations requests. Let's clarify that one larger physically contiguous block is less likely to fragment memory than many scattered pages which can prevent more large blocks from being created. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170517080932.21423-1-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Suggested-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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