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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: axboe@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kenneth.w.chen@intel.com
Subject: Re: [patch 2/9] mempool gfp flag
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:03:44 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <425C6FF0.6010808@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050412125025.6890b2d7.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:

>> Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/gfp.h
>> ===================================================================
>> --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/gfp.h	2005-04-12 22:26:10.000000000 +1000
>> +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/gfp.h	2005-04-12 22:26:11.000000000 +1000
>> @@ -38,14 +38,16 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
>>  #define __GFP_NO_GROW	0x2000u	/* Slab internal usage */
>>  #define __GFP_COMP	0x4000u	/* Add compound page metadata */
>>  #define __GFP_ZERO	0x8000u	/* Return zeroed page on success */
>> +#define __GFP_MEMPOOL	0x10000u/* Mempool allocation */
> 
> 
> I think I'll rename this to "__GFP_NOMEMALLOC".  Things other then mempool
> might want to use this.
> 

Sure, I wasn't set on GFP_MEMPOOL.


-- 
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-13  1:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-12 12:43 [patch 0/9] various (mainly mempool fixes and block layer improvements) Nick Piggin
2005-04-12 12:48 ` [patch 1/9] GFP_ZERO fix Nick Piggin
2005-04-12 19:47   ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-13  1:02     ` Nick Piggin
2005-04-14 10:59     ` Manfred Spraul
2005-04-12 12:48 ` [patch 2/9] mempool gfp flag Nick Piggin
2005-04-12 19:50   ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-13  1:03     ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2005-04-12 12:49 ` [patch 3/9] no PF_MEMALLOC tinkering Nick Piggin
2005-04-12 19:57   ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-13  1:13     ` Nick Piggin
2005-04-12 12:49 ` [patch 4/9] blk: no memory barrier Nick Piggin
2005-04-12 12:50 ` [patch 5/9] blk: branch hints Nick Piggin
2005-04-12 12:50 ` [patch 6/9] blk: unplug later Nick Piggin
2005-04-12 19:58   ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-13  1:32     ` Nick Piggin
2005-04-13 10:20       ` Jens Axboe
2005-04-12 12:51 ` [patch 7/9] blk: efficiency improvements Nick Piggin
2005-04-12 12:52 ` [patch 0/9] blk: reduce locking Nick Piggin
2005-04-12 12:53 ` [patch doh/9] mempool simplify alloc Nick Piggin

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