Avi Kivity 2e3e5882dc KVM: MMU: Don't do GFP_NOWAIT allocations ...

Before preempt notifiers, kvm needed to allocate memory with GFP_NOWAIT so
as not to have to enable preemption and take a heavyweight exit.  On oom, we'd
fall back to a GFP_KERNEL allocation.

With preemption notifiers, we can do a GFP_KERNEL allocation, and perform
the heavyweight exit only if the kernel decides to put us to sleep.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>

2007-10-13 10:18:27 +02:00

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