linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/9] mm, page_alloc: rip out ZONELIST_ORDER

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Message-ID: <20170714111633.gk5rpu2d5ghkbrrd@suse.de>
Date:   Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:16:33 +0100
From:   Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-api@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] mm, page_alloc: rip out ZONELIST_ORDER_ZONE

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 12:47:57PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > That should to be "default" because the original code would have the proc
> > entry display "default" unless it was set at runtime. Pretty weird I
> > know but it's always possible someone is parsing the original default
> > and not handling it properly.
> 
> Ohh, right! That is indeed strange. Then I guess it would be probably
> better to simply return Node to make it clear what the default is. What
> do you think?
> 

That would work too. The casing still matches.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs