Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 10 May 2001 21:19:13 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] allocation looping + kswapd CPU cycles |
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Hi,
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:22:57PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Initially I thought about __GFP_FAIL to be used by writeout routines which > want to cluster pages until they can allocate memory without causing any > pressure to the system. Something like this: > > while ((page = alloc_page(GFP_FAIL)) > add_page_to_cluster(page); > write_cluster();
Isn't that an orthogonal decision? You can use __GFP_FAIL with or without __GFP_WAIT or __GFP_IO, whichever is appropriate.
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