On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 05:38:30PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andi Kleen <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > I was thinking that your __GFP_NOOOM was a thinko. How would it differ
> > > from __GFP_NORETRY?
> >
> > __GFP_NORETRY seems to skip at least one retry pass as far as I can see.
> > __GFP_NOOOM wouldn't. But perhaps the additional pass only makes sense
> > with oom killing? I'm not sure - that is why i was asking.
> >
>
> Oh, OK. That final get_page_from_freelist() is allegedly to see if a
> parallel oom-killing freed some pages - we already know that
> try_to_free_pages() didn't work.
>
> I rather doubt that it'll make any difference.
I switched over the x86-64 IOMMU code and floppy code to use
__GFP_NORETRY now.
But perhaps it would be better to rename it to __GFP_NOOOM
because I think that would express its meaning better.
-Andi
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