Re: [PATCH -mm] remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD fixes

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Wed Jul 25 2012 - 19:35:57 EST


On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 02:51:19PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Turns out I missed two spots where __GFP_NO_KSWAPD is used.
>
> The removal from the trace code is obvious, since the flag
> got removed there is no need to print it.
>
> For mtdcore.c, now that memory compaction has been fixed,
> we should no longer see large swap storms from an attempt
> to allocate a large buffer, removing the need to specify
> __GFP_NO_KSWAPD.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>

You should have tidied up comment of the function.
I hope Andrew can do it if he see this review.

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
index fcfce24..6ff1308 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
@@ -1065,8 +1065,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_writev);
* until the request succeeds or until the allocation size falls below
* the system page size. This attempts to make sure it does not adversely
* impact system performance, so when allocating more than one page, we
- * ask the memory allocator to avoid re-trying, swapping, writing back
- * or performing I/O.
+ * ask the memory allocator to avoid re-trying.
*
* Note, this function also makes sure that the allocated buffer is aligned to
* the MTD device's min. I/O unit, i.e. the "mtd->writesize" value.

Thanks.

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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