Re: [PATCH 8/9] mm: dont set __GFP_WRITE on ramfs/sysfs writes

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Thu Mar 01 2012 - 05:14:27 EST


On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:00:30PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> Try to avoid page reclaim waits when writing to ramfs/sysfs etc.
>
> Maybe not a big deal...

This looks like a separate fix that would make sense standalone. It's
not just the waits, there is not much of a point in skipping zones
during allocation based on the dirty usage which they'll never
contribute to. Could you maybe pull this up front?

> CC: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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