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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] mm: get rid of __alloc_pages_high_priority
On Mon, 16 Nov 2015, mhocko@kernel.org wrote:

> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
>
> __alloc_pages_high_priority doesn't do anything special other than it
> calls get_page_from_freelist and loops around GFP_NOFAIL allocation
> until it succeeds. It would be better if the first part was done in
> __alloc_pages_slowpath where we modify the zonelist because this would
> be easier to read and understand. Opencoding the function into its only
> caller allows to simplify it a bit as well.
>
> This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>


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