On Mon, 28 Jul 2014, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > Looks like kind of a shotgun approach to me. A single __GFP_NO_KSWAPD bullet > is no longer enough, so we use all the flags and hope for the best. It seems > THP has so many flags it should be unique for now, but I wonder if there is a > better way to say how much an allocation is willing to wait. >
We would have to introduce a new __GFP_FAULT bit to distinguish between allocations at pagefault that should not use synchronous memory compaction solely for this case, it's probably not worth it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
