| Date | Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:29:04 +0900 | From | KOSAKI Motohiro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 11/30] mm: __GFP_MEMALLOC |
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Hi Peter,
> __GFP_MEMALLOC will allow the allocation to disregard the watermarks, > much like PF_MEMALLOC. > > It allows one to pass along the memalloc state in object related allocation > flags as opposed to task related flags, such as sk->sk_allocation.
Is this properly name? page alloc is always "mem alloc".
you wrote comment as "Use emergency reserves" and this flag works to turn on ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS.
then, __GFP_NO_WATERMARK or __GFP_EMERGENCY are better?
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