Re: [PATCH 10/10] mm, page_alloc: Only enforce watermarks for order-0 allocations

[Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 04:17:44PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> >---
> >  mm/page_alloc.c | 11 ++++++++---
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> >index 25731624d734..fedec98aafca 100644
> >--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> >+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> >@@ -2332,7 +2332,7 @@ static bool __zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, unsigned int order,
> >  {
> >  	long min = mark;
> >  	int o;
> >-	const bool alloc_harder = (alloc_flags & ALLOC_HARDER);
> >+	const int alloc_harder = (alloc_flags & ALLOC_HARDER);
> 
> How bout the !!(alloc_flags & ALLOC_HARDER) conversion to bool? Unless it
> forces to make the compiler some extra work...
> 

Some people frown upon that trick as being obscure when it's not unnecessary
and a modern compiler is meant to get it right. The int is clear and
obvious in this context so I just went with it.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs