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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [ATTEND] many topics
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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.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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