Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 10 May 2001 20:52:04 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] allocation looping + kswapd CPU cycles |
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Hi,
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:43:46PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> No. __GFP_FAIL can to try to reclaim pages from inactive clean. > > We just want to avoid __GFP_FAIL allocations from going to > try_to_free_pages().
Why? __GFP_FAIL is only useful as an indication that the caller has some magic mechanism for coping with failure. There's no other information passed, so a brief call to try_to_free_pages is quite appropriate.
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