Messages in this thread | | | From | Vineet Gupta <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 06/19] arc: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT | Date | Mon, 11 Apr 2016 14:23:42 +0000 |
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On Monday 11 April 2016 04:38 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: > From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> > > __GFP_REPEAT has a rather weak semantic but since it has been introduced > around 2.6.12 it has been ignored for low order allocations. > > pte_alloc_one_kernel uses __get_order_pte but this is obviously > always zero because BITS_FOR_PTE is not larger than 9 yet the page > size is always larger than 4K. This means that this flag has never > been actually useful here because it has always been used only for > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY requests. > > Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> > Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Thx, -Vineet
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