On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 03:32:49PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
>
> b92b1b89a33c ("virtio: force vring descriptors to be allocated from
> lowmem") tried to exclude highmem pages for descriptors so it cleared
> __GFP_HIGHMEM from a given gfp mask. The patch also cleared __GFP_HIGH
> which doesn't make much sense for this fix because __GFP_HIGH only
> controls access to memory reserves and it doesn't have any influence
> on the zone selection. Some of the call paths use GFP_ATOMIC and
> dropping __GFP_HIGH will reduce their changes for success because the
> lack of access to memory reserves.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
It also has been tested by Ying Huang and found to have fixed a page
allocation failure problem in 4.4-rc3 in the Intel 0-day testing
infrastructure.
--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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