Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Sep 2015 13:51:06 +0100 | From | Mel Gorman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 05/10] mm, page_alloc: Distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd |
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 04:55:09PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:52:37AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > > @@ -119,10 +134,10 @@ struct vm_area_struct; > > #define GFP_USER (__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO | __GFP_FS | __GFP_HARDWALL) > > #define GFP_HIGHUSER (GFP_USER | __GFP_HIGHMEM) > > #define GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE (GFP_HIGHUSER | __GFP_MOVABLE) > > -#define GFP_IOFS (__GFP_IO | __GFP_FS) > > -#define GFP_TRANSHUGE (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | __GFP_COMP | \ > > - __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN | \ > > - __GFP_NO_KSWAPD) > > +#define GFP_IOFS (__GFP_IO | __GFP_FS | __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM) > > These are some really odd semantics to be given a name like that. > > GFP_IOFS was introduced as a short-hand for testing/setting/clearing > these two bits at the same time, not to be used for allocations. In > fact, the only user for allocations is lustre, and it's not at all > obious why those sites shouldn't include __GFP_WAIT as well. > > Removing this definition altogether would probably be best.
Ok, I'll add a TODO to create a patch that removes GFP_IOFS entirely. It can be tacked on to the end of the series.
-- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs
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