On Mon, 2 Mar 2015, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > > > > You are thinking about an opportunistic allocation attempt in SLAB? > > > > > > > > AFAICT SLAB allocations should trigger reclaim. > > > > > > > > > > Well, let me quote your commit 952f3b51beb5: > > > > This was about global reclaim. Local reclaim is good and that can be > > done via zone_reclaim. > > Right, so the patch is a functional change for zone_reclaim_mode == 1, where > !__GFP_WAIT will prevent it. >
My patch is not a functional change, get_page_from_freelist() handles zone_reclaim_mode == 1 properly in the page allocator fastpath. This patch only touches the slowpath. -- 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/
