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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>, Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm/slub: don't wait for high-order page allocation
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 17:05:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150807150501.GJ30785@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1438913403-3682-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>

On Fri 07-08-15 11:10:03, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
[...]
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index 257283f..52b9025 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -1364,6 +1364,8 @@ static struct page *allocate_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, int node)
>  	 * so we fall-back to the minimum order allocation.
>  	 */
>  	alloc_gfp = (flags | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY) & ~__GFP_NOFAIL;
> +	if ((alloc_gfp & __GFP_WAIT) && oo_order(oo) > oo_order(s->min))
> +		alloc_gfp = (alloc_gfp | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC) & ~__GFP_WAIT;

Wouldn't it be preferable to "fix" the __GFP_WAIT behavior than spilling
__GFP_NOMEMALLOC around the kernel? GFP flags are getting harder and
harder to use right and that is a signal we should thing about it and
unclutter the current state.

>  
>  	page = alloc_slab_page(s, alloc_gfp, node, oo);
>  	if (unlikely(!page)) {
> -- 
> 1.9.1

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-07 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-07  2:10 Joonsoo Kim
2015-08-07 15:05 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2015-08-10  0:40   ` Joonsoo Kim
2015-08-11  6:36     ` Michal Hocko
2015-08-12 22:31 ` David Rientjes

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