Re: [PATCH 8/9] mm: dont set __GFP_WRITE on ramfs/sysfs writes

[Fengguang Wu]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 11:13:54AM +0100, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:00:30PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > Try to avoid page reclaim waits when writing to ramfs/sysfs etc.
> > 
> > Maybe not a big deal...
> 
> This looks like a separate fix that would make sense standalone.  It's
> not just the waits, there is not much of a point in skipping zones
> during allocation based on the dirty usage which they'll never
> contribute to.  Could you maybe pull this up front?

OK, thanks!

> > CC: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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