From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx144.postini.com [74.125.245.144]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D3BF6B004D for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:36:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:36:31 +0900 From: Minchan Kim Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD fixes Message-ID: <20120725233631.GC14411@bbox> References: <20120724111222.2c5e6b30@annuminas.surriel.com> <20120725145119.75be021d@cuia.bos.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120725145119.75be021d@cuia.bos.redhat.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Rik van Riel Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrea Arcangeli , lkml , Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , Artem Bityutskiy , David Woodhouse On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 02:51:19PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > Turns out I missed two spots where __GFP_NO_KSWAPD is used. > > The removal from the trace code is obvious, since the flag > got removed there is no need to print it. > > For mtdcore.c, now that memory compaction has been fixed, > we should no longer see large swap storms from an attempt > to allocate a large buffer, removing the need to specify > __GFP_NO_KSWAPD. > > Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim You should have tidied up comment of the function. I hope Andrew can do it if he see this review. diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c index fcfce24..6ff1308 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c @@ -1065,8 +1065,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_writev); * until the request succeeds or until the allocation size falls below * the system page size. This attempts to make sure it does not adversely * impact system performance, so when allocating more than one page, we - * ask the memory allocator to avoid re-trying, swapping, writing back - * or performing I/O. + * ask the memory allocator to avoid re-trying. * * Note, this function also makes sure that the allocated buffer is aligned to * the MTD device's min. I/O unit, i.e. the "mtd->writesize" value. Thanks. -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org