Re: [PATCH 1/3] tree wide: get rid of __GFP_REPEAT for order-0 allocations part I

From	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 1/3] tree wide: get rid of __GFP_REPEAT for order-0 allocations part I
Date	2015-11-28 11:10 +0100
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On Fri 27-11-15 10:38:07, Michal Hocko wrote:
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> I am not sure whether we found any conclusion here. Are there any strong
> arguments against patch 1? I think that should be relatively
> non-controversial. What about patch 2? I think it should be ok as well
> as we are basically removing the flag which has never had any effect.
> 
> I would like to proceed with this further by going through remaining users.
> Most of them depend on a variable size and I am not familiar with the
> code so I will talk to maintainer to find out reasoning behind using the
> flag. Once we have reasonable number of them I would like to go on and
> rename the flag to __GFP_BEST_AFFORD and make it independent on the

ble, __GFP_BEST_EFFORT I meant of course...

> order. It would still trigger OOM killer where applicable but wouldn't
> retry endlessly.
> 
> Does this sound like a reasonable plan?

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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Re: [PATCH 1/3] tree wide: get rid of __GFP_REPEAT for order-0  allocations part I Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2015-11-18 15:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/3] tree wide: get rid of __GFP_REPEAT for order-0  allocations part I Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2015-11-27 10:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/3] tree wide: get rid of __GFP_REPEAT for order-0  allocations part I Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2015-11-28 11:10 +0100

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