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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/30] mm: __GFP_MEMALLOC
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:29:04 +0900
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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?