On Tue 17-01-17 21:49:45, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
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> 8. Nailing down exactly what GFP_TEMPORARY means
It's a hint that the page allocator should group those pages together
for better fragmentation avoidance. Have a look at e12ba74d8ff3 ("Group
short-lived and reclaimable kernel allocations"). Basically it is
something like __GFP_MOVABLE for kernel allocations which cannot go to
the movable zones.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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