On Sat 11-06-16 22:21:06, Ebru Akagunduz wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 03:12:47PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: [...] > > IMHO we should drop the current ALLOCSTALL heuristic and replace it with > > ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM. > > Actually, I don't lean towards to touch do_swap_page giving gfp parameter. > do_swap_page is also used by do_page_fault, it can cause many side effect > that I can't see. The point of the patch is to keep the current gfp mask from all places except for the optimistic swapin. This was what my example patch did AFAIR. > I've just sent a patch series for converting from optimistic to > conservative and take back allocstall. Maybe that way can be easier to > be approved and less problemitical. I will try to have a look but I will be travelling this week so cannot promise anything. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>