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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 08/12] Inject asynchronous page fault into a guest if page is swapped out.
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 08:10:31PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 20:09 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 21:05 +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > > > > + /* do alloc atomic since if we are going to sleep anyway we
> > > > > + may as well sleep faulting in page */
> > > > > + work = kmem_cache_zalloc(async_pf_cache, GFP_ATOMIC);
> > > > > + if (!work)
> > > > > + return 0;
> > > >
> > > > GFP_KERNEL is fine for this context.
> > > But it can sleep, no? The comment explains why I don't want to sleep
> > > here.
> >
> > In that case, use 0, no use wasting __GFP_HIGH on something that doesn't
> > actually need it.
>
> Ah, I just saw we have GFP_NOWAIT for that.
Indeed. Will use GFP_NOWAIT.

--
Gleb.


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