From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-we0-f171.google.com (mail-we0-f171.google.com [74.125.82.171]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 319BB6B00BB for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:37:55 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-we0-f171.google.com with SMTP id u56so891860wes.16 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:37:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com. [209.132.183.28]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id dr11si9076331wid.3.2014.02.25.12.37.53 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:37:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <530CFF1B.8020901@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:37:47 -0500 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] mm: fix GFP_THISNODE callers and clarify References: <1393360022-22566-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> <1393360022-22566-2-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> In-Reply-To: <1393360022-22566-2-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Johannes Weiner , Andrew Morton Cc: Jan Stancek , Mel Gorman , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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 Acked-by: Rik van Riel -- All rights reversed -- 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