linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] mm: discard __GFP

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Date:   Wed, 4 Jan 2023 12:04:36 +0000
From:   Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
To:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc:     Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>,
        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] mm: discard __GFP_ATOMIC

On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 07:17:48PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > @@ -4081,13 +4081,14 @@ static inline bool zone_watermark_fast(struct zone *z, unsigned int order,
> >  	if (__zone_watermark_ok(z, order, mark, highest_zoneidx, alloc_flags,
> >  					free_pages))
> >  		return true;
> > +
> >  	/*
> > -	 * Ignore watermark boosting for GFP_ATOMIC order-0 allocations
> > +	 * Ignore watermark boosting for GFP_HIGH order-0 allocations
> 
> There's no GFP_HIGH. We could either keep GFP_ATOMIC here if we want to talk
> about the high-level flag combo, or __GFP_HIGH if about the low-level
> detail. We're deep in the page allocator implementation so the latter would
> be OK.
> 

Fixed

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs