Q: GFP_IO not in development kernels?

Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm+eric@npwt.net)
06 Jan 1998 14:33:20 -0600


I was just looking and in the 2.0.3x series a allocation priority
GFP_IO was added. This affected things like shrink_mmap.

Looking in 2.1.76, always running behind I know, I noticed that GFP_IO
has not been added. Was this an oversight or has the problem been
solved in some other way?

Eric