On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Michal Hocko <mho...@kernel.org> wrote:
> What about those non-default configurations. Do they really want to > invoke the OOM killer rather than fallback to the vmalloc? In our case, we use 4096 slots per fq, so that is a 16KB memory allocation. And these allocations happen right after boot, while we have plenty of non fragmented memory. Presumably falling back to vmalloc() would be just fine.