Re: [patch v2 1/3] mm: remove GFP_THISNODE

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 03/02/2015 05:08 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2015, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>
> > > You are thinking about an opportunistic allocation attempt in SLAB?
> > >
> > > AFAICT SLAB allocations should trigger reclaim.
> >
> > Well, let me quote your commit 952f3b51beb5:
>
> This was about global reclaim. Local reclaim is good and that can be
> done via zone_reclaim.

Right, so the patch is a functional change for zone_reclaim_mode == 1, 
where !__GFP_WAIT will prevent it.

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