On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 20:09 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > 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. Ah, I just saw we have GFP_NOWAIT for that. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href