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From: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: melgor@ie.ibm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: fix misleading __GFP_REPEAT related comments
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 15:14:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080206231409.GH3477@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802061508150.21988@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On 06.02.2008 [15:08:39 -0800], Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> 
> > To clarify, the flags' semantics are:
> > 
> >     __GFP_NORETRY means try no harder than one run through __alloc_pages
> > 
> >     __GFP_REPEAT means __GFP_NOFAIL
> 
> The __GFP_REPEAT == __GFP_NOFAIL? 
> 
> If so then remove __GFP_REPEAT.

I'm purely documenting the state of things in this patch. In a follow-on
set of patches, I try to change the semantics of __GFP_REPEAT for
large-order allocations.

Also, note, this is only in "this implementation" as mentioned all over
page_alloc.c.

Thanks,
Nish

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-06 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-06 23:05 [RFC][PATCH] mm: fix misleading __GFP_REPEAT related comments Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-02-06 23:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-06 23:14   ` Nishanth Aravamudan [this message]
2008-02-06 23:29     ` Christoph Lameter

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