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Re: [PATCH 06/10] mm, page_alloc: Rename __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM

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On Mon, 21 Sep 2015, Mel Gorman wrote:

> __GFP_WAIT was used to signal that the caller was in atomic context and
> could not sleep.  Now it is possible to distinguish between true atomic
> context and callers that are not willing to sleep. The latter should clear
> __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM so kswapd will still wake. As clearing __GFP_WAIT
> behaves differently, there is a risk that people will clear the wrong
> flags. This patch renames __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM to clearly indicate
> what it does -- setting it allows all reclaim activity, clearing them
> prevents it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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Re: [PATCH 06/10] mm, page_alloc: Rename __GFP_WAIT to  __GFP_RECLAIM David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> - 2015-10-01 00:30 +0200

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