From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:31:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] Mark page cache pages as __GFP_PAGECACHE instead of __GFP_MOVABLE In-Reply-To: <20070515150552.16348.15975.sendpatchset@skynet.skynet.ie> Message-ID: References: <20070515150311.16348.56826.sendpatchset@skynet.skynet.ie> <20070515150552.16348.15975.sendpatchset@skynet.skynet.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Mel Gorman Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, 15 May 2007, Mel Gorman wrote: > This patch marks page cache allocations as __GFP_PAGECACHE instead of > __GFP_MOVABLE. To make code easier to read, a set of three GFP flags are > added called GFP_PAGECACHE, GFP_NOFS_PAGECACHE and GFP_HIGHUSER_PAGECACHE. What motivated this patch? Are there any special flags that are needed for the pagecache? If we have this flag then we could move the functionality from __page_cache_alloc (mm/filemap.c) into the page allocator? -- 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