Bug 194301

Summary: mm/slab.c slab_alloc_node fault ____cache_alloc does not fallback to other nodes
Product: Memory Management Reporter: Michael (michael_allen_bond)
Component: Slab AllocatorAssignee: Andrew Morton (akpm)
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 4.10 Subsystem:
Regression: No Bisected commit-id:

Description Michael 2017-02-07 05:57:43 UTC
This is addressed already in the code comments, but ____cache_alloc and ____cache_alloc_node should be merged or restructured to allow fallback to other nodes in the fastpath (local cache) allocations.