From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964822AbWCVWph (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:45:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964817AbWCVWpf (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:45:35 -0500 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:18064 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964812AbWCVWpI (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:45:08 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:45:05 -0800 From: Paul Jackson To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: akpm@osdl.org, clameter@sgi.com, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: + add-gfp-flag-__gfp_policy-to-control-policies-and-cpusets-redirection.patch added to -mm tree Message-Id: <20060322144505.d75cca83.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <200603222154.k2MLsYu5023582@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> References: <200603222154.k2MLsYu5023582@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.1.7 (GTK+ 2.4.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph wrote: > GFP_KERNEL does not have __GFP_POLICY set. Meaning that page allocations > with GFP_KERNEL are no longer subject to cpusets and policy constraints. I do not (yet anyway) ack this change. Please don't send it onto Linus until I have a chance to review it. If anyone lurking has concerns with or insights into the value of this change, I'd welcome their comments. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.925.600.0401