linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: get rid of __alloc_pages_high

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Message-ID: <564C8FD9.3060706@suse.cz>
Date:	Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:48:57 +0100
From:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:	mhocko@...nel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: get rid of __alloc_pages_high_priority

On 11/16/2015 02:22 PM, mhocko@...nel.org wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> 
> __alloc_pages_high_priority doesn't do anything special other than it
> calls get_page_from_freelist and loops around GFP_NOFAIL allocation
> until it succeeds. It would be better if the first part was done in
> __alloc_pages_slowpath where we modify the zonelist because this would
> be easier to read and understand. Opencoding the function into its only
> caller allows to simplify it a bit as well.
> 
> This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>


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