linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/compaction: remove unnecessary order check in try_to_compact

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Date:	Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:16:20 +0530
From:	Anshuman Khandual <khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@...il.com>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, vbabka@...e.cz, iamjoonsoo.kim@....com,
	mhocko@...e.com, mina86@...a86.com, minchan@...nel.org
CC:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/compaction: remove unnecessary order check in try_to_compact_pages()

On 06/15/2016 12:22 PM, Ganesh Mahendran wrote:
> The caller __alloc_pages_direct_compact() already check (order == 0).
> So no need to check again.

Yeah, the caller (__alloc_pages_direct_compact) checks if the order of
allocation is 0. But we can remove it there and keep it in here as this
is the actual entry point for direct page compaction.