linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] add __GFP_ZERO to GFP_LEVEL

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Date:	Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:17:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
cc:	Mel Gorman <mel@...net.ie>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Daniel Phillips <phillips@...gle.com>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add __GFP_ZERO to GFP_LEVEL_MASK

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> ---
> Daniel recently spotted that __GFP_ZERO is not (and has never been)
> part of GFP_LEVEL_MASK. I could not find a reason for this in the
> original patch: 3977971c7f09ce08ed1b8d7a67b2098eb732e4cd in the -bk
> tree.
> 
> This of course is in stark contradiction with the comment accompanying
> GFP_LEVEL_MASK.

NACK.

The effect that this patch will have is that __GFP_ZERO is passed through 
to the page allocator which will needlessly zero pages. GFP_LEVEL_MASK is 
used to filter out the flags that are to be passed to the page allocator. 
__GFP_ZERO is not passed on but handled by the slab allocators.


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