Re: [patch 2/2] mm: fix GFP_THISNODE callers and clarify

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Tue Feb 25 2014 - 15:38:02 EST


On 02/25/2014 03:27 PM, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> GFP_THISNODE is for callers that implement their own clever fallback
> to remote nodes, and so no direct reclaim is invoked. There are many
> current users that only want node exclusiveness but still want reclaim
> to make the allocation happen. Convert them over to __GFP_THISNODE
> and update the documentation to clarify GFP_THISNODE semantics.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>


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