Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm,page_alloc: Update comment for last second allocation attempt.

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On Thu 09-11-17 13:25:19, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 09-11-17 21:19:24, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > > So, I believe that the changelog is not wrong, and I don't want to preserve
> > > > 
> > > >   keep very high watermark here, this is only to catch a parallel oom killing,
> > > >   we must fail if we're still under heavy pressure
> > > > 
> > > > part which lost strong background.
> > > 
> > > I do not see how. You simply do not address the original concern Andrea
> > > had and keep repeating unrelated stuff.
> > 
> > What does "address the original concern Andrea had" mean?
> > I'm still thinking that the original concern Andrea had is no longer
> > valid in the current code because precondition has changed.
> 
> I am sorry but I am not going to repeat myself.

In any case, if you want to change high->low watermark for the last
allocation then it deserves a separate patch with the justification,
user visible changes. All you do here is to make the comment disagree
with the code which is not an improvement at all. Quite contrary I would
dare to say.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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