The patch titled Subject: mm-do-not-stall-in-synchronous-compaction-for-thp-allocations-v3 has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-do-not-stall-in-synchronous-compaction-for-thp-allocations-v3.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Subject: mm-do-not-stall-in-synchronous-compaction-for-thp-allocations-v3 Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/gfp.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff -puN include/linux/gfp.h~mm-do-not-stall-in-synchronous-compaction-for-thp-allocations-v3 include/linux/gfp.h --- a/include/linux/gfp.h~mm-do-not-stall-in-synchronous-compaction-for-thp-allocations-v3 +++ a/include/linux/gfp.h @@ -89,6 +89,9 @@ struct vm_area_struct; * 1. Do not wake kswapd (hence the flag name) * 2. Do not use stall in synchronous compaction for high-order allocations * as this may cause the caller to stall writing out pages + * + * This flag it primarily intended for use with transparent hugepage support. + * If the flag is used outside the VM, linux-mm should be cc'd for review. */ #define __GFP_NO_KSWAPD ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NO_KSWAPD) _ Subject: Subject: mm-do-not-stall-in-synchronous-compaction-for-thp-allocations-v3 Patches currently in -mm which might be from mgorman@xxxxxxx are mm-page-writebackc-make-determine_dirtyable_memory-static-again.patch mm-do-not-stall-in-synchronous-compaction-for-thp-allocations.patch mm-do-not-stall-in-synchronous-compaction-for-thp-allocations-v3.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html