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

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Message-ID: <20170714130841.GR2618@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:   Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:08:42 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
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 14-07-17 13:56:16, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Also strongly suggest you continue using proc_dostring because it
> catches all the corner-cases that can occur.

proc_dostring would need a data in sysctl table and I found that more
confusing than having a simplistic read/write. I can do that if you
insist though.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs