Re: [PATCH 1/11] Add __GFP_MOVABLE flag and update callers

[Mel Gorman]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> Are GFP_HIGHUSER allocations always movable? It would reduce the size of
> the patch if this would be added to GFP_HIGHUSER.

No, they aren't. Page tables allocated with HIGHPTE are currently not 
movable for example. A number of drivers (infiniband for example) also use 
__GFP_HIGHMEM that are not movable.

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Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab
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