From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wj0-f197.google.com (mail-wj0-f197.google.com [209.85.210.197]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31E066B0261 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2017 08:32:45 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-wj0-f197.google.com with SMTP id yr2so2494209wjc.4 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2017 05:32:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de. [195.135.220.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b79si20011056wma.103.2017.01.18.05.32.43 for (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 18 Jan 2017 05:32:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 14:32:43 +0100 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [ATTEND] many topics Message-ID: <20170118133243.GB7021@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <20170118054945.GD18349@bombadil.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170118054945.GD18349@bombadil.infradead.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org On Tue 17-01-17 21:49:45, Matthew Wilcox wrote: [...] > 8. Nailing down exactly what GFP_TEMPORARY means It's a hint that the page allocator should group those pages together for better fragmentation avoidance. Have a look at e12ba74d8ff3 ("Group short-lived and reclaimable kernel allocations"). Basically it is something like __GFP_MOVABLE for kernel allocations which cannot go to the movable zones. -- 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