Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752918AbcDNHCV (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2016 03:02:21 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f65.google.com ([74.125.82.65]:33647 "EHLO mail-wm0-f65.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751142AbcDNHCT (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2016 03:02:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 09:02:17 +0200 From: Michal Hocko To: Herbert Xu Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , LKML , "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/19] crypto: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT Message-ID: <20160414070216.GA2850@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <1460372892-8157-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org> <1460372892-8157-19-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org> <20160414062731.GA19640@gondor.apana.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160414062731.GA19640@gondor.apana.org.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 910 Lines: 25 On Thu 14-04-16 14:27:31, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 01:08:11PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > From: Michal Hocko > > > > __GFP_REPEAT has a rather weak semantic but since it has been introduced > > around 2.6.12 it has been ignored for low order allocations. > > > > lzo_init uses __GFP_REPEAT to allocate LZO1X_MEM_COMPRESS 16K. This is > > order 3 allocation request and __GFP_REPEAT is ignored for this size > > as well as all <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY requests. > > > > Cc: Herbert Xu > > Cc: "David S. Miller" > > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko > > Could you please send this patch to the linux-crypto list? Thanks. Will do. Do you prefer it now as a stand along patch or when I repost the full series. This one doesn't depend on any previous so I can do both ways. Thanks! -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs