On Wed, 11 May 2011, Mel Gorman wrote: > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c > index 9f8a97b..057f1e2 100644 > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c > @@ -1972,6 +1972,7 @@ gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_t gfp_mask) > { > int alloc_flags = ALLOC_WMARK_MIN | ALLOC_CPUSET; > const gfp_t wait = gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT; > + const gfp_t can_wake_kswapd = !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NO_KSWAPD); > > /* __GFP_HIGH is assumed to be the same as ALLOC_HIGH to save a branch. */ > BUILD_BUG_ON(__GFP_HIGH != (__force gfp_t) ALLOC_HIGH); > @@ -1984,7 +1985,7 @@ gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_t gfp_mask) > */ > alloc_flags |= (__force int) (gfp_mask & __GFP_HIGH); > > - if (!wait) { > + if (!wait && can_wake_kswapd) { > /* > * Not worth trying to allocate harder for > * __GFP_NOMEMALLOC even if it can't schedule. > diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c > index 98c358d..1071723 100644 > --- a/mm/slub.c > +++ b/mm/slub.c > @@ -1170,7 +1170,8 @@ static struct page *allocate_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, int node) > * Let the initial higher-order allocation fail under memory pressure > * so we fall-back to the minimum order allocation. > */ > - alloc_gfp = (flags | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NO_KSWAPD) & ~__GFP_NOFAIL; > + alloc_gfp = (flags | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NO_KSWAPD) & > + ~(__GFP_NOFAIL | __GFP_WAIT); __GFP_NORETRY is a no-op without __GFP_WAIT. > > page = alloc_slab_page(alloc_gfp, node, oo); > if (unlikely(!page)) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html