From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 In-Reply-To: <43385412.5080506@austin.ibm.com> References: <4338537E.8070603@austin.ibm.com> <43385412.5080506@austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <21024267-29C3-4657-9C45-17D186EAD808@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Kyle Moffett Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] add defrag flags Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:16:03 -0400 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Joel Schopp Cc: Andrew Morton , lhms , Linux Memory Management List , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mel Gorman , Mike Kravetz List-ID: 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 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCM/CS/IT/U d- s++: a18 C++++>$ UB/L/X/*++++(+)>$ P+++(++++)>$ L++++(+ ++) E W++(+) N+++(++) o? K? w--- O? M++ V? PS+() PE+(-) Y+ PGP+++ t+(+ ++) 5 X R? tv-(--) b++++(++) DI+ D+ G e->++++$ h!*()>++$ r !y?(-) ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- 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