From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751549AbdANIqz (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2017 03:46:55 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:46260 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750818AbdANIqv (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2017 03:46:51 -0500 Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 09:45:53 +0100 From: Michal Hocko To: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Andrew Morton , Vlastimil Babka , David Rientjes , Mel Gorman , Johannes Weiner , Al Viro , linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML , "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] mm: support __GFP_REPEAT in kvmalloc_node for >=64kB Message-ID: <20170114084552.GA9962@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <20170112153717.28943-1-mhocko@kernel.org> <20170112153717.28943-3-mhocko@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.0 (2016-04-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat 14-01-17 11:42:09, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > On 2017/01/13 0:37, Michal Hocko wrote: [...] > > diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c > > index 7e0c240b5760..9306244b9f41 100644 > > --- a/mm/util.c > > +++ b/mm/util.c > > @@ -333,7 +333,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_mmap); > > * Uses kmalloc to get the memory but if the allocation fails then falls back > > * to the vmalloc allocator. Use kvfree for freeing the memory. > > * > > - * Reclaim modifiers - __GFP_NORETRY, __GFP_REPEAT and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported > > + * Reclaim modifiers - __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported. __GFP_REPEAT > > + * is supported only for large (>64kB) allocations > > Isn't this ">32kB" (i.e. __GFP_REPEAT is supported for 64kB allocation) ? True, I will update the patch to use >32kB Thanks! -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs