linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH mm v4 07/39] mm: clarify __GFP

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Date:   Thu, 30 Dec 2021 20:11:25 +0100
From:   Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>
To:     Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Cc:     andrey.konovalov@...ux.dev, Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
        kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>,
        Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@...gle.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH mm v4 07/39] mm: clarify __GFP_ZEROTAGS comment

On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 10:17 AM Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 10:59 PM <andrey.konovalov@...ux.dev> wrote:
> >
> > From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
>
> >
> > __GFP_ZEROTAGS is intended as an optimization: if memory is zeroed during
> > allocation, it's possible to set memory tags at the same time with little
> > performance impact.
> Perhaps you could mention this intention explicitly in the comment?
> Right now it still doesn't reference performance.

Sure, will do in v5. Thanks!