From: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
"linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/19] arc: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 14:23:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C2D7FE5348E1B147BCA15975FBA23075F4E9D497@us01wembx1.internal.synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1460372892-8157-7-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org>
On Monday 11 April 2016 04:38 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
>
> __GFP_REPEAT has a rather weak semantic but since it has been introduced
> around 2.6.12 it has been ignored for low order allocations.
>
> pte_alloc_one_kernel uses __get_order_pte but this is obviously
> always zero because BITS_FOR_PTE is not larger than 9 yet the page
> size is always larger than 4K. This means that this flag has never
> been actually useful here because it has always been used only for
> PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY requests.
>
> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Thx,
-Vineet
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-11 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-11 11:07 [PATCH 0/19] get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPORT Michal Hocko
2016-04-11 11:07 ` [PATCH 01/19] tree wide: get rid of __GFP_REPEAT for order-0 allocations part I Michal Hocko
2016-04-14 19:56 ` David Rientjes
2016-04-15 7:44 ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-11 11:07 ` [PATCH 02/19] x86: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT Michal Hocko
2016-04-11 11:07 ` [PATCH 03/19] x86/efi: " Michal Hocko
2016-04-12 15:53 ` Matt Fleming
2016-04-11 11:07 ` [PATCH 04/19] arm: " Michal Hocko
2016-04-11 11:07 ` [PATCH 05/19] arm64: " Michal Hocko
2016-04-11 15:49 ` Will Deacon
2016-04-11 11:07 ` [PATCH 06/19] arc: " Michal Hocko
2016-04-11 14:23 ` Vineet Gupta [this message]
2016-04-11 11:08 ` [PATCH 07/19] mips: " Michal Hocko
2016-04-11 11:08 ` [PATCH 08/19] nios2: " Michal Hocko
2016-04-11 11:08 ` [PATCH 09/19] parisc: " Michal Hocko
2016-04-11 11:08 ` [PATCH 10/19] score: " Michal Hocko
2016-04-11 11:08 ` [PATCH 11/19] powerpc: " Michal Hocko
2016-04-11 11:08 ` [PATCH 12/19] sparc: " Michal Hocko
2016-04-11 11:08 ` [PATCH 13/19] s390: " Michal Hocko
2016-04-11 11:28 ` Cornelia Huck
2016-04-11 12:47 ` Heiko Carstens
2016-04-11 11:08 ` [PATCH 14/19] sh: " Michal Hocko
2016-04-11 11:08 ` [PATCH 15/19] tile: " Michal Hocko
2016-04-11 11:08 ` [PATCH 16/19] unicore32: " Michal Hocko
2016-04-11 11:08 ` [PATCH 17/19] dm: get rid of superfluous gfp flags Michal Hocko
2016-04-15 12:29 ` Mikulas Patocka
2016-04-15 13:08 ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-15 18:41 ` Mikulas Patocka
2016-04-16 20:31 ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-22 12:47 ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-26 17:20 ` Mikulas Patocka
2016-04-27 8:35 ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-11 11:08 ` [PATCH 18/19] crypto: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT Michal Hocko
2016-04-14 6:27 ` Herbert Xu
2016-04-14 7:02 ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-14 8:16 ` Herbert Xu
2016-04-14 8:51 ` [PATCH resend] " Michal Hocko
2016-04-15 14:37 ` Herbert Xu
2016-04-11 11:08 ` [PATCH 19/19] jbd2: " Michal Hocko
2016-04-13 11:21 ` CC in git cover letter vs patches (was Re: [PATCH 0/19] get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPORT) Vineet Gupta
2016-04-13 13:33 ` Michal Hocko
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