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From: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: js1304@gmail.com
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/slub: wake up kswapd for initial high order allocation
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 10:59:09 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1709061056270.13344@nuc-kabylake> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1504672666-19682-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>

On Wed, 6 Sep 2017, js1304@gmail.com wrote:

> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -1578,8 +1578,12 @@ static struct page *allocate_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, int node)
>  	 * so we fall-back to the minimum order allocation.
>  	 */
>  	alloc_gfp = (flags | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY) & ~__GFP_NOFAIL;
> -	if ((alloc_gfp & __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM) && oo_order(oo) > oo_order(s->min))
> -		alloc_gfp = (alloc_gfp | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC) & ~(__GFP_RECLAIM|__GFP_NOFAIL);
> +	if (oo_order(oo) > oo_order(s->min)) {
> +		if (alloc_gfp & __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM) {
> +			alloc_gfp |= __GFP_NOMEMALLOC;
> +			alloc_gfp &= ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM;
> +		}
> +	}
>

Can we come up with another inline function in gfp.h for this as well?

Well and needing these functions to manipulate flags actually indicates
that we may need a cleanup of the GFP flags at some point. There is a buch
of flags that disable things and some that enable things.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-06 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-06  4:37 js1304
2017-09-06  4:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm/slub: don't use reserved memory for optimistic try js1304
2017-09-06  8:10   ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-09-06  9:20     ` Michal Hocko
2017-09-06 15:55     ` Christopher Lameter
2017-09-06  8:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm/slub: wake up kswapd for initial high order allocation Vlastimil Babka
2017-09-06 15:59 ` Christopher Lameter [this message]
2017-09-06 17:21   ` Michal Hocko
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-08-28  1:11 js1304
2017-08-28 10:04 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-08-29  0:22   ` Joonsoo Kim
2017-08-29  7:14     ` Vlastimil Babka

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