On Fri, 13 Nov 2015, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I think that this is more a cleanup than any functional change. We > > > are rarely screwed so much that __alloc_pages_high_priority would > > > fail. Yet I think that __alloc_pages_high_priority is obscuring the > > > overal intention more than it is helpful. Another motivation is to > > > reduce wait_iff_congested call to a single one in the allocator. I plan > > > to do other changes in that area and get rid of it altogether. > > > > I think it's a combination of a cleanup (the inlining of > > __alloc_pages_high_priority) and a functional change (no longer looping > > infinitely around a get_page_from_freelist() call). I'd suggest doing the > > inlining in one patch and then the reworking of __GFP_NOFAIL when > > ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS fails just so we could easily revert the latter if > > necessary. > > I can split it up if this is really preferable of course.
I think it's preferable. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
