Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:55:42 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] page-allocator: Allow too high-order warning messages to be suppressed with __GFP_NOWARN |
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On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Mel Gorman wrote:
> The page allocator warns once when an order >= MAX_ORDER is specified. > This is to catch callers of the allocator that are always falling back > to their worst-case when it was not expected. However, there are cases > where the caller is behaving correctly but cannot suppress the warning. > This patch allows the warning to be suppressed by the callers by > specifying __GFP_NOWARN. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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