Re: [PATCH 04/17] arm: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT

2016-07-20 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 1 Jun 2016 17:24:24 +0100 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 11:14:46AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > From: Michal Hocko > > > > __GFP_REPEAT has a rather weak semantic but since it has been introduced > > around 2.6.12 it has been ignored for low order allocati

Re: [PATCH 04/17] arm: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT

2016-06-01 Thread Michal Hocko
On Wed 01-06-16 17:24:24, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 11:14:46AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > From: Michal Hocko > > > > __GFP_REPEAT has a rather weak semantic but since it has been introduced > > around 2.6.12 it has been ignored for low order allocations. > > >

Re: [PATCH 04/17] arm: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT

2016-06-01 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 11:14:46AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > From: Michal Hocko > > __GFP_REPEAT has a rather weak semantic but since it has been introduced > around 2.6.12 it has been ignored for low order allocations. > > PGALLOC_GFP uses __GFP_REPEAT but none of the allocation which uses >

[PATCH 04/17] arm: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT

2016-05-30 Thread Michal Hocko
From: Michal Hocko __GFP_REPEAT has a rather weak semantic but since it has been introduced around 2.6.12 it has been ignored for low order allocations. PGALLOC_GFP uses __GFP_REPEAT but none of the allocation which uses this flag is for more than order-2. This means that this flag has never bee