Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 May 2016 09:31:11 +0200 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 17/20] dm: get rid of superfluous gfp flags |
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On Fri 29-04-16 14:54:52, Mike Snitzer wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28 2016 at 9:24am -0400, > Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote: > > > From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> > > > > copy_params seems to be little bit confused about which allocation flags > > to use. It enforces GFP_NOIO even though it uses > > memalloc_noio_{save,restore} which enforces GFP_NOIO at the page > > allocator level automatically (via memalloc_noio_flags). It also > > uses __GFP_REPEAT for the __vmalloc request which doesn't make much > > sense either because vmalloc doesn't rely on costly high order > > allocations. Let's just drop the __GFP_REPEAT and leave the further > > cleanup to later changes. > > > > Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> > > Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> > > Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com > > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> > > I've taken this patch for 4.7 but editted the header, see: > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=dm-4.7&id=0222c76e96163355620224625c1cd80991086dc7
Thanks!
-- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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