Re: [PATCH 11/30] mm: __GFP_MEMALLOC

KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-07-25T09:32:01Z

Hi Peter,

> __GFP_MEMALLOC will allow the allocation to disregard the watermarks,
> much like PF_MEMALLOC.
>
> It allows one to pass along the memalloc state in object related allocation
> flags as opposed to task related flags, such as sk->sk_allocation.

Is this properly name?
page alloc is always "mem alloc".

you wrote comment as "Use emergency reserves" and
this flag works to turn on ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS.

then, __GFP_NO_WATERMARK or __GFP_EMERGENCY are better?