Re: [RFC PATCH] memalloc_noio: update the comment to make it cleaner

2019-09-18 Thread Xiubo Li
On 2019/9/18 16:14, Michal Hocko wrote: On Wed 18-09-19 16:02:52, Xiubo Li wrote: On 2019/9/18 15:25, Michal Hocko wrote: On Wed 18-09-19 04:58:20, xiu...@redhat.com wrote: From: Xiubo Li The GFP_NOIO means all further allocations will implicitly drop both __GFP_IO and __GFP_FS flags and so

Re: [RFC PATCH] memalloc_noio: update the comment to make it cleaner

2019-09-18 Thread Michal Hocko
On Wed 18-09-19 16:02:52, Xiubo Li wrote: > On 2019/9/18 15:25, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Wed 18-09-19 04:58:20, xiu...@redhat.com wrote: > > > From: Xiubo Li > > > > > > The GFP_NOIO means all further allocations will implicitly drop > > > both __GFP_IO and __GFP_FS flags and so they are safe f

Re: [RFC PATCH] memalloc_noio: update the comment to make it cleaner

2019-09-18 Thread Xiubo Li
On 2019/9/18 15:25, Michal Hocko wrote: On Wed 18-09-19 04:58:20, xiu...@redhat.com wrote: From: Xiubo Li The GFP_NOIO means all further allocations will implicitly drop both __GFP_IO and __GFP_FS flags and so they are safe for both the IO critical section and the the critical section from the

Re: [RFC PATCH] memalloc_noio: update the comment to make it cleaner

2019-09-18 Thread Michal Hocko
On Wed 18-09-19 04:58:20, xiu...@redhat.com wrote: > From: Xiubo Li > > The GFP_NOIO means all further allocations will implicitly drop > both __GFP_IO and __GFP_FS flags and so they are safe for both the > IO critical section and the the critical section from the allocation > recursion point of

[RFC PATCH] memalloc_noio: update the comment to make it cleaner

2019-09-17 Thread xiubli
From: Xiubo Li The GFP_NOIO means all further allocations will implicitly drop both __GFP_IO and __GFP_FS flags and so they are safe for both the IO critical section and the the critical section from the allocation recursion point of view. Not only the __GFP_IO, which a bit confusing when reading