From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: js1304@gmail.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/slub: wake up kswapd for initial high order allocation
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 19:21:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170906172110.m7ag4ox34fcscg4x@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1709061056270.13344@nuc-kabylake>
On Wed 06-09-17 10:59:09, Cristopher Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2017, js1304@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > --- a/mm/slub.c
> > +++ b/mm/slub.c
> > @@ -1578,8 +1578,12 @@ 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_DIRECT_RECLAIM) && oo_order(oo) > oo_order(s->min))
> > - alloc_gfp = (alloc_gfp | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC) & ~(__GFP_RECLAIM|__GFP_NOFAIL);
> > + if (oo_order(oo) > oo_order(s->min)) {
> > + if (alloc_gfp & __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM) {
> > + alloc_gfp |= __GFP_NOMEMALLOC;
> > + alloc_gfp &= ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM;
> > + }
> > + }
> >
>
> Can we come up with another inline function in gfp.h for this as well?
What do you mean? The oo_order thing?
> Well and needing these functions to manipulate flags actually indicates
> that we may need a cleanup of the GFP flags at some point. There is a buch
> of flags that disable things and some that enable things.
Good luck with that
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-06 4:37 js1304
2017-09-06 4:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm/slub: don't use reserved memory for optimistic try js1304
2017-09-06 8:10 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-09-06 9:20 ` Michal Hocko
2017-09-06 15:55 ` Christopher Lameter
2017-09-06 8:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm/slub: wake up kswapd for initial high order allocation Vlastimil Babka
2017-09-06 15:59 ` Christopher Lameter
2017-09-06 17:21 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
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2017-08-28 1:11 js1304
2017-08-28 10:04 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-08-29 0:22 ` Joonsoo Kim
2017-08-29 7:14 ` Vlastimil Babka
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