[$] Allowing small allocations to fail
As Michal Hocko noted at the beginning of his session at the 2015 Linux
Storage, Filesystem, and Memory Management Summit, the news that the
memory-management code will normally retry small allocations indefinitely
rather than returning a failure status came as a surprise to many
developers. In this session, the assembled group attempted to come up with
ways to safely change this behavior. Click below (subscribers only) for
the full report from LSFMM 2015.