Re: [PATCH 12/12] vmscan: Do not writeback pages in direct reclaim

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On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 09:25:38AM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> 
> BTW, why xbf_buf_create() use GFP_KERNEL even if it can be blocked ?
> memory cgroup just limits pages for users, then, doesn't intend to
> limit kernel pages.

You mean xfs_buf_allocate?  It doesn't in the end.  It goes through the
xfs_kmem helper which clear __GFP_FS if we're currently inside a
filesystem transaction (PF_FSTRANS is set) or a caller specificly
requested it to be disabled even without that by passig the
XBF_DONT_BLOCK flag.

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