linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: don't set __GFP

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Date:	Sun, 4 Mar 2012 16:11:29 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>,
	Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: don't set __GFP_WRITE on ramfs/sysfs writes

On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 02:10:35PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> There is not much of a point in skipping zones during allocation based
> on the dirty usage which they'll never contribute to. And we'd like to
> avoid page reclaim waits when writing to ramfs/sysfs etc.
> 
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>

Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>

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