On Wed 14-02-18 16:51:53, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote: > > Discussion with the memory folks towards scope based allocation > I am working on converting some of the GFP_NOFS memory allocation calls > to new scope API [1]. While other allocation types (noio, nofs, > noreclaim) are covered. Are there plans for identifying scope of > GFP_ATOMIC allocations? This should cover most (if not all) of the > allocation scope. There was no explicit request for that but I can see how some users might want it. I would have to double check but maybe this would allow vmalloc(GFP_ATOMIC). There were some users but most of them could have been changed in some way so the motivation is not very large. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
