Re: the new VMt

[Alan Cox]

> Frankly, how often do we allocate multi-order pages? I've just made quick
> statistics wrt. how allocation orders are distributed on a more or less
> typical system:

Enough that failures on this crashed older 2.2 kernels because the tcp code
ended up looping trying to get memory and the slab allocator couldnt get
a new multipage block. 

Alan

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