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From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>,
	Jiri Kosina <jiri.kosina@suse.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm: teach mm by current context info to not do I/O during memory allocation
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:41:48 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACVXFVM=nNEthvSOzoTnoZ-7uhLGGmZ8ULsPu0N0d8QegtHYew@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1210151029350.1702-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> Instead of allow/forbid, the API should be save/restore (like
> local_irq_save and local_irq_restore).  This makes nesting much easier.

Good point.

> Also, do we really the "p" argument?  This is not at all likely to be
> used with any task other than the current one.

Yes, only 'current' can be passed now. I keep it because no performance
effect with macro implementation. But that is not good since it may
cause misuse. Will remove the 'p' argument.

Thanks,
--
Ming Lei

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-15 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1350278059-14904-1-git-send-email-ming.lei@canonical.com>
2012-10-15  5:14 ` Ming Lei
2012-10-15 14:33   ` Alan Stern
2012-10-15 14:41     ` Ming Lei [this message]
2012-10-15 15:47   ` Minchan Kim
2012-10-16  1:56     ` Ming Lei
2012-10-16  5:49       ` Minchan Kim
2012-10-16  7:08         ` Ming Lei
2012-10-16 13:09           ` Minchan Kim
2012-10-16 13:47             ` Ming Lei
2012-10-16 13:53               ` Minchan Kim

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