WARN_ON_ONCE((flags & GFP_KERNEL) != GFP_KERNEL);
/*
- * Make sure that larger requests are not too disruptive - no OOM
- * killer and no allocation failure warnings as we have a fallback
+ * We want to attempt a large physically contiguous block first because
+ * it is less likely to fragment multiple larger blocks and therefore
+ * contribute to a long term fragmentation less than vmalloc fallback.
+ * However make sure that larger requests are not too disruptive - no
+ * OOM killer and no allocation failure warnings as we have a fallback.
*/
if (size > PAGE_SIZE) {
kmalloc_flags |= __GFP_NOWARN;