From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-lf0-f71.google.com (mail-lf0-f71.google.com [209.85.215.71]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E6AB6B007E for ; Mon, 2 May 2016 03:31:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-lf0-f71.google.com with SMTP id y84so135503485lfc.3 for ; Mon, 02 May 2016 00:31:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-wm0-f68.google.com (mail-wm0-f68.google.com. [74.125.82.68]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id pd2si32584797wjb.233.2016.05.02.00.31.13 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 02 May 2016 00:31:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-wm0-f68.google.com with SMTP id w143so15875168wmw.3 for ; Mon, 02 May 2016 00:31:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 09:31:11 +0200 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/20] dm: get rid of superfluous gfp flags Message-ID: <20160502073111.GA25265@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <1461849846-27209-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org> <1461849846-27209-18-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org> <20160429185451.GA21865@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160429185451.GA21865@redhat.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mike Snitzer Cc: Andrew Morton , LKML , linux-mm@kvack.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, Mikulas Patocka , Shaohua Li On Fri 29-04-16 14:54:52, Mike Snitzer wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28 2016 at 9:24am -0400, > Michal Hocko wrote: > > > From: Michal Hocko > > > > copy_params seems to be little bit confused about which allocation flags > > to use. It enforces GFP_NOIO even though it uses > > memalloc_noio_{save,restore} which enforces GFP_NOIO at the page > > allocator level automatically (via memalloc_noio_flags). It also > > uses __GFP_REPEAT for the __vmalloc request which doesn't make much > > sense either because vmalloc doesn't rely on costly high order > > allocations. Let's just drop the __GFP_REPEAT and leave the further > > cleanup to later changes. > > > > Cc: Shaohua Li > > Cc: Mikulas Patocka > > Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com > > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko > > I've taken this patch for 4.7 but editted the header, see: > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=dm-4.7&id=0222c76e96163355620224625c1cd80991086dc7 Thanks! -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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