From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.11]) by e36.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k0VIJ8UW029721 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:19:08 -0500 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VERS6.8) with ESMTP id k0VIHD1F272244 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:17:13 -0700 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k0VIJ76L017134 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:19:07 -0700 Subject: Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 1/8] Add the __GFP_NOLRU flag From: Dave Hansen In-Reply-To: <20060131023005.7915.10365.sendpatchset@debian> References: <20060131023000.7915.71955.sendpatchset@debian> <20060131023005.7915.10365.sendpatchset@debian> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:18:53 -0800 Message-Id: <1138731533.6424.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: KUROSAWA Takahiro Cc: ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 11:30 +0900, KUROSAWA Takahiro wrote: > This patch adds the __GFP_NOLRU flag. This option should be used > for GFP_USER/GFP_HIGHUSER page allocations that are not maintained > in the zone LRU lists. Is this simply to mark pages which will never end up in the LRU? Why is this important? -- Dave -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org