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    [PATCH] GFP_THISNODE must not trigger global reclaim · 952f3b51
    Christoph Lameter authored
    
    
    The intent of GFP_THISNODE is to make sure that an allocation occurs on a
    particular node.  If this is not possible then NULL needs to be returned so
    that the caller can choose what to do next on its own (the slab allocator
    depends on that).
    
    However, GFP_THISNODE currently triggers reclaim before returning a failure
    (GFP_THISNODE means GFP_NORETRY is set).  If we have over allocated a node
    then we will currently do some reclaim before returning NULL.  The caller
    may want memory from other nodes before reclaim should be triggered.  (If
    the caller wants reclaim then he can directly use __GFP_THISNODE instead).
    
    There is no flag to avoid reclaim in the page allocator and adding yet
    another GFP_xx flag would be difficult given that we are out of available
    flags.
    
    So just compare and see if all bits for GFP_THISNODE (__GFP_THISNODE,
    __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOWARN) are set.  If so then we return NULL before
    waking up kswapd.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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