On Tue 17-01-17 21:49:45, Matthew Wilcox wrote: [...] > 8. Nailing down exactly what GFP_TEMPORARY means It's a hint that the page allocator should group those pages together for better fragmentation avoidance. Have a look at e12ba74d8ff3 ("Group short-lived and reclaimable kernel allocations"). Basically it is something like __GFP_MOVABLE for kernel allocations which cannot go to the movable zones. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html