2015-02-10 13:57:25

by Yaowei Bai

Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/vm: there should have a 'non' according to the context

Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <[email protected]>
---
Documentation/vm/balance | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/vm/balance b/Documentation/vm/balance
index c46e68c..3a2cacf 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/balance
+++ b/Documentation/vm/balance
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ the caller can not sleep (typically intr context), or does not want
to incur cost overheads of page stealing and possible swap io for
whatever reasons.

-__GFP_IO allocation requests are made to prevent file system deadlocks.
+Non __GFP_IO allocation requests are made to prevent file system deadlocks.

In the absence of non sleepable allocation requests, it seems detrimental
to be doing balancing. Page reclamation can be kicked off lazily, that
--
1.9.1

2015-02-16 17:21:12

by Jonathan Corbet

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/vm: there should have a 'non' according to the context

On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 21:55:12 +0800
Yaowei Bai <[email protected]> wrote:

> -__GFP_IO allocation requests are made to prevent file system deadlocks.
> +Non __GFP_IO allocation requests are made to prevent file system deadlocks.

Applied to the docs tree, thanks. I do wonder, though, how much this
file reflects reality in general at this point...a lot has happened since
2009, when this file was last touched.

jon