netdev - Re: [patch v2 1/3] mm: remove GFP

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Date:	Mon, 2 Mar 2015 10:08:19 -0600 (CST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
cc:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>,
	Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@...ira.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
	Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, dev@...nvswitch.org
Subject: Re: [patch v2 1/3] mm: remove GFP_THISNODE

On Mon, 2 Mar 2015, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

> > You are thinking about an opportunistic allocation attempt in SLAB?
> >
> > AFAICT SLAB allocations should trigger reclaim.
> >
>
> Well, let me quote your commit 952f3b51beb5:

This was about global reclaim. Local reclaim is good and that can be
done via zone_reclaim.
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