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* [patch 17/27] Use __GFP_HIGH in mpage_writepages()
@ 2002-07-04 23:54 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2002-07-04 23:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linus Torvalds; +Cc: lkml



In mpage_writepage(), use __GFP_HIGH when allocating the BIO: writeback
is a memory reclaim function and is entitle to dip into the page
reserves to get its IO underway.


 mpage.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- 2.5.24/fs/mpage.c~mpage_writepage-tryharder	Thu Jul  4 16:17:26 2002
+++ 2.5.24-akpm/fs/mpage.c	Thu Jul  4 16:22:08 2002
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ page_is_mapped:
 		unsigned nr_bvecs = MPAGE_BIO_MAX_SIZE / PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
 
 		bio = mpage_alloc(bdev, blocks[0] << (blkbits - 9),
-					nr_bvecs, GFP_NOFS);
+					nr_bvecs, GFP_NOFS|__GFP_HIGH);
 		if (bio == NULL)
 			goto confused;
 	}

-

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