Re: [PATCH 05/10] mm, page_alloc: Distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd

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On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 04:55:09PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:52:37AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > @@ -119,10 +134,10 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
> >  #define GFP_USER	(__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO | __GFP_FS | __GFP_HARDWALL)
> >  #define GFP_HIGHUSER	(GFP_USER | __GFP_HIGHMEM)
> >  #define GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE	(GFP_HIGHUSER | __GFP_MOVABLE)
> > -#define GFP_IOFS	(__GFP_IO | __GFP_FS)
> > -#define GFP_TRANSHUGE	(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | __GFP_COMP | \
> > -			 __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN | \
> > -			 __GFP_NO_KSWAPD)
> > +#define GFP_IOFS	(__GFP_IO | __GFP_FS | __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM)
> 
> These are some really odd semantics to be given a name like that.
> 
> GFP_IOFS was introduced as a short-hand for testing/setting/clearing
> these two bits at the same time, not to be used for allocations. In
> fact, the only user for allocations is lustre, and it's not at all
> obious why those sites shouldn't include __GFP_WAIT as well.
> 
> Removing this definition altogether would probably be best.

Ok, I'll add a TODO to create a patch that removes GFP_IOFS entirely. It
can be tacked on to the end of the series.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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