Re: [PATCH v4 08/12] Inject asynchronous page fault into a guest if page is swapped out.

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On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 21:05 +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > > +   /* do alloc atomic since if we are going to sleep anyway we
> > > +      may as well sleep faulting in page */
> > > +   work = kmem_cache_zalloc(async_pf_cache, GFP_ATOMIC);
> > > +   if (!work)
> > > +           return 0;
> > 
> > GFP_KERNEL is fine for this context.
> But it can sleep, no? The comment explains why I don't want to sleep
> here. 

In that case, use 0, no use wasting __GFP_HIGH on something that doesn't
actually need it.

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