Re: [RFC/PATCH v2] mm: Introduce GFP_PANIC for non-failingallocations

[Pekka Enberg]

On Fri, 8 May 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > +#define GFP_PANIC	(__GFP_NOFAIL | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC)

On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 10:20 -0400, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> So this means not retrying the allocation a couple of times? Not delving
> into reserve pools? Such behavior is good for a allocation that causes a
> panic if it fails?

If you do GFP_KERNEL|GFP_PANIC, we will cond_resched() and retry if we
made some progress. So yes, I think the behavior is good for early-boot
call-sites that can't really fail anyway.

			Pekka

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