On Thu 20-08-15 14:28:57, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Wed 12-08-15 11:45:32, Mel Gorman wrote: > > __GFP_WAIT was used to signal that the caller was in atomic context and > > could not sleep. Now it is possible to distinguish between true atomic > > context and callers that are not willing to sleep. The latter should clear > > __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM so kswapd will still wake. As clearing __GFP_WAIT > > behaves differently, there is a risk that people will clear the wrong > > flags. This patch renames __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM to clearly indicate > > what it does -- setting it allows all reclaim activity, clearing them > > prevents it. > > > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > I haven't checked all the converted places too deeply but they look > straightforward. > > Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> I meant @suse.com, dang the old one is hardwired into my hands... -- 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>