From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] mm: fix GFP_THISNODE callers and clarify
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:37:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <530CFF1B.8020901@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1393360022-22566-2-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org>
On 02/25/2014 03:27 PM, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> GFP_THISNODE is for callers that implement their own clever fallback
> to remote nodes, and so no direct reclaim is invoked. There are many
> current users that only want node exclusiveness but still want reclaim
> to make the allocation happen. Convert them over to __GFP_THISNODE
> and update the documentation to clarify GFP_THISNODE semantics.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] mm: fix GFP_THISNODE callers and clarify
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:37:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <530CFF1B.8020901@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1393360022-22566-2-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org>
On 02/25/2014 03:27 PM, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> GFP_THISNODE is for callers that implement their own clever fallback
> to remote nodes, and so no direct reclaim is invoked. There are many
> current users that only want node exclusiveness but still want reclaim
> to make the allocation happen. Convert them over to __GFP_THISNODE
> and update the documentation to clarify GFP_THISNODE semantics.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-25 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-25 20:27 [patch 1/2] mm: page_alloc: reset aging cycle with GFP_THISNODE Johannes Weiner
2014-02-25 20:27 ` Johannes Weiner
2014-02-25 20:27 ` [patch 2/2] mm: fix GFP_THISNODE callers and clarify Johannes Weiner
2014-02-25 20:27 ` Johannes Weiner
2014-02-25 20:37 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2014-02-25 20:37 ` Rik van Riel
2014-02-25 20:36 ` [patch 1/2] mm: page_alloc: reset aging cycle with GFP_THISNODE Rik van Riel
2014-02-25 20:36 ` Rik van Riel
2014-02-26 9:54 ` Mel Gorman
2014-02-26 9:54 ` Mel Gorman
2014-02-26 17:12 ` Johannes Weiner
2014-02-26 17:12 ` Johannes Weiner
2014-02-26 20:13 ` Johannes Weiner
2014-02-26 20:13 ` Johannes Weiner
2014-02-27 20:23 ` Rik van Riel
2014-02-27 20:23 ` Rik van Riel
2014-02-28 11:45 ` Mel Gorman
2014-02-28 11:45 ` Mel Gorman
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