[ovs-dev] [patch v2 1/3] mm: remove GFP_THISNODE

Vlastimil Babka vbabka at suse.cz
Mon Mar 2 16:23:04 UTC 2015


On 03/02/2015 05:08 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2015, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>
>>> You are thinking about an opportunistic allocation attempt in SLAB?
>>>
>>> AFAICT SLAB allocations should trigger reclaim.
>>>
>>
>> Well, let me quote your commit 952f3b51beb5:
>
> This was about global reclaim. Local reclaim is good and that can be
> done via zone_reclaim.

Right, so the patch is a functional change for zone_reclaim_mode == 1, 
where !__GFP_WAIT will prevent it.




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