From: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
To: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
lhms <lhms-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] add defrag flags
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:16:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21024267-29C3-4657-9C45-17D186EAD808@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43385412.5080506@austin.ibm.com>
On Sep 26, 2005, at 16:03:30, Joel Schopp wrote:
> The flags are:
> __GFP_USER, which corresponds to easily reclaimable pages
> __GFP_KERNRCLM, which corresponds to userspace pages
Uhh, call me crazy, but don't those flags look a little backwards to
you? Maybe it's just me, but wouldn't it make sense to expect
__GFP_USER to be a userspace allocation and __GFP_KERNRCLM to be an
easily reclaimable kernel page?
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-27 0:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-26 20:01 [PATCH 0/9] fragmentation avoidance Joel Schopp
2005-09-26 20:03 ` [PATCH 1/9] add defrag flags Joel Schopp
2005-09-27 0:16 ` Kyle Moffett [this message]
2005-09-27 0:24 ` Dave Hansen
2005-09-27 0:43 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-09-27 5:44 ` Paul Jackson
2005-09-27 13:34 ` Mel Gorman
2005-09-27 16:26 ` [Lhms-devel] " Paul Jackson
2005-09-27 18:38 ` Joel Schopp
2005-09-27 19:30 ` Paul Jackson
2005-09-27 21:00 ` [Lhms-devel] " Joel Schopp
2005-09-27 21:23 ` Paul Jackson
2005-09-27 22:03 ` Joel Schopp
2005-09-27 22:45 ` Paul Jackson
2005-09-26 20:05 ` [PATCH 2/9] declare defrag structs Joel Schopp
2005-09-26 20:06 ` [PATCH 3/9] initialize defrag Joel Schopp
2005-09-26 20:09 ` [PATCH 4/9] defrag helper functions Joel Schopp
2005-09-26 22:29 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2005-09-27 16:08 ` Joel Schopp
2005-09-26 20:11 ` [PATCH 5/9] propagate defrag alloc types Joel Schopp
2005-09-26 20:13 ` [PATCH 6/9] fragmentation avoidance core Joel Schopp
2005-09-26 20:14 ` [PATCH 7/9] try harder on large allocations Joel Schopp
2005-09-27 7:21 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-09-27 16:17 ` Joel Schopp
2005-09-26 20:16 ` [PATCH 8/9] defrag fallback Joel Schopp
2005-09-26 20:17 ` [PATCH 9/9] free memory is user reclaimable Joel Schopp
2005-09-26 20:19 ` [PATCH 10/9] percpu splitout Joel Schopp
2005-09-26 21:49 ` [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/9] fragmentation avoidance Joel Schopp
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