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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [ATTEND] many topics
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 14:32:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170118133243.GB7021@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170118054945.GD18349@bombadil.infradead.org>

On Tue 17-01-17 21:49:45, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
[...]
> 8. Nailing down exactly what GFP_TEMPORARY means

It's a hint that the page allocator should group those pages together
for better fragmentation avoidance. Have a look at e12ba74d8ff3 ("Group
short-lived and reclaimable kernel allocations"). Basically it is
something like __GFP_MOVABLE for kernel allocations which cannot go to
the movable zones.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-18 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-18  5:49 [ATTEND] many topics Matthew Wilcox
2017-01-18 10:13 ` [Lsf-pc] " Jan Kara
2017-01-18 11:26   ` willy
2017-01-18 13:32 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2017-01-19 11:05   ` willy
2017-01-19 11:33     ` Michal Hocko
2017-01-19 11:52       ` willy
2017-01-19 12:11         ` Michal Hocko
2017-01-21  0:11           ` NeilBrown
2017-01-21 13:16             ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-01-22  4:45               ` NeilBrown
2017-01-23  6:05                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-01-23  6:30                   ` NeilBrown
2017-01-23  6:35                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-01-23 17:09                   ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-01-23 19:34                     ` NeilBrown
2017-01-25 14:36                       ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-01-25 20:36                         ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-01-25 21:15                           ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-01-25 23:19                         ` NeilBrown
2017-01-26  8:56                           ` Michal Hocko
2017-01-26 21:20                             ` NeilBrown
2017-01-27 13:12                               ` Michal Hocko

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