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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0910011355230.32006@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Thu, 1 Oct 2009 14:03:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@...e.de>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>, Wouter Verhelst <w@...r.be>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	trond.myklebust@....uio.no
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/31] mm: expose gfp_to_alloc_flags()

On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Suresh Jayaraman wrote:

> From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> 
> 
> Expose the gfp to alloc_flags mapping, so we can use it in other parts
> of the vm.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
> Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@...e.de>

Nack, these flags are internal to the page allocator and exporting them to 
generic VM code is unnecessary.

The only bit you actually use in your patchset is ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS to 
determine whether a particular allocation can use memory reserves.  I'd 
suggest adding a bool function that returns whether the current context is 
given access to reserves including your new __GFP_MEMALLOC flag and 
exporting that instead.
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