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From: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: avoid livelock on !__GFP_FS allocations
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:16:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMbhsRS+-jn7d1bTd4F0_RB9860iWjOHLfOkDsqLfWEUbR3TYA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1110252311030.20273@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:12 PM, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, David Rientjes wrote:
>
>> Ok, so __GFP_NORETRY it is.  Just make sure that when
>> pm_restrict_gfp_mask() masks off __GFP_IO and __GFP_FS that it also sets
>> __GFP_NORETRY even though the name of the function no longer seems
>> appropriate anymore.
>>
>
> Or, rather, when pm_restrict_gfp_mask() clears __GFP_IO and __GFP_FS that
> it also has the same behavior as __GFP_NORETRY in should_alloc_retry() by
> setting a variable in file scope.
>

Why do you prefer that over adding a gfp_required_mask?

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-26  6:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-25  6:39 [PATCH] mm: avoid livelock on !__GFP_FS allocations Colin Cross
2011-10-25  7:40 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-10-25  7:51   ` Colin Cross
2011-10-25  8:08     ` Pekka Enberg
2011-10-25 22:12     ` David Rientjes
2011-10-25  9:09 ` Mel Gorman
2011-10-25  9:26   ` Colin Cross
2011-10-25 11:23     ` Mel Gorman
2011-10-25 17:08       ` Colin Cross
2011-11-01 12:28         ` Mel Gorman
2011-10-25 19:39       ` Pekka Enberg
2011-11-01 12:29         ` Mel Gorman
2011-10-25 19:29   ` Colin Cross
2011-10-25 22:18   ` David Rientjes
2011-10-26  1:46     ` Colin Cross
2011-10-26  5:47       ` David Rientjes
2011-10-26  6:12         ` David Rientjes
2011-10-26  6:16           ` Colin Cross [this message]
2011-10-26  6:24             ` David Rientjes
2011-10-26  6:26               ` Colin Cross
2011-10-26  6:33                 ` David Rientjes
2011-10-26  6:36                   ` Colin Cross
2011-10-26  6:51                     ` David Rientjes
2011-10-26  6:57                       ` Colin Cross
2011-10-26  7:10                         ` David Rientjes
2011-10-26  7:22                           ` Colin Cross
2011-11-01 12:36                             ` Mel Gorman
2011-10-25 22:10 ` David Rientjes
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-11-14 14:04 Mel Gorman
2011-11-14 18:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-15 10:30   ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-14 23:03 ` Andrew Morton
2011-11-15 10:42   ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-15 15:43     ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-15 16:13 ` Minchan Kim
2011-11-15 17:36   ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-16  0:22     ` Minchan Kim
2011-11-16  0:28       ` Colin Cross
2011-11-16  0:45         ` Minchan Kim
2011-11-16  7:10           ` Pekka Enberg
2011-11-16 21:44             ` David Rientjes
2011-11-16 21:58               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-11-16 22:07               ` Minchan Kim
2011-11-16 22:48                 ` David Rientjes
2011-11-15 21:40 ` David Rientjes
2011-11-16  9:52   ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-16 21:39     ` David Rientjes

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