Re: [RFC/PATCH v2] mm: Introduce GFP_PANIC for non-failingallocations

[Christoph Lameter]

On Fri, 8 May 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> +#define GFP_PANIC	(__GFP_NOFAIL | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC)

So this means not retrying the allocation a couple of times? Not delving
into reserve pools? Such behavior is good for a allocation that causes a
panic if it fails?

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