Re: [PATCH 1/2] vmpressure: in-kernel notifications

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On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:22:08PM +0400, Glauber Costa wrote:
> From: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[...]
> This patch extends that to also support in-kernel users.

Yup, that is the next logical step. ;-) The patches look good to me, just
one question...

> @@ -227,7 +233,7 @@ void vmpressure(gfp_t gfp, struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>  	 * we account it too.
>  	 */
>  	if (!(gfp & (__GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_MOVABLE | __GFP_IO | __GFP_FS)))

I wonder if we want to let kernel users to specify the gfp mask here? The
current mask is good for userspace notifications, but in-kernel users
might be interested in including (or excluding) different types of
allocations, e.g. watch only for DMA allocations pressure?

Thanks!

Anton

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