From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753556AbaBYUh4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:37:56 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:9011 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752724AbaBYUhz (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:37:55 -0500 Message-ID: <530CFF1B.8020901@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:37:47 -0500 From: Rik van Riel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Weiner , Andrew Morton CC: Jan Stancek , Mel Gorman , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: 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