Re: [patch v2 1/3] mm: remove GFP_THISNODE

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Mon Mar 02 2015 - 10:46:40 EST


On Mon, 2 Mar 2015, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

> So it would be IMHO better for longer-term maintainability to have the
> relevant __GFP_THISNODE callers pass also __GFP_NO_KSWAPD to denote these
> opportunistic allocation attempts, instead of having this subtle semantic

You are thinking about an opportunistic allocation attempt in SLAB?

AFAICT SLAB allocations should trigger reclaim.
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