Re: [Bug #13319] Page allocation failures with b43 and p54usb

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Tue Jun 09 2009 - 03:50:40 EST


On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Mel Gorman<mel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In addition, include how many objects there are per-slab and include what
> the order is being passed to the page allocator when allocating new slabs.
> Would that be enough to determine if fallback-to-smaller orders occured?

Well, if the slab_out_of_memory() is called, we already know the
higher order allocation failed _and_ the fallback allocation failed.
So yes, it would be enough.
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