From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 21:19:13 +0100 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Subject: Re: [PATCH] allocation looping + kswapd CPU cycles Message-ID: <20010510211913.R16590@redhat.com> References: <20010510205204.O16590@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from marcelo@conectiva.com.br on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:22:57PM -0300 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Mark Hemment , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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. Cheers, Stephen -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/