Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932313AbVKBGML (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2005 01:12:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932370AbVKBGML (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2005 01:12:11 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:4515 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932313AbVKBGMK (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2005 01:12:10 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 16:11:34 +1100 From: Andrew Morton To: Mel Gorman Cc: mingo@elte.hu, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, mbligh@mbligh.org, kravetz@us.ibm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lhms-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19 Message-Id: <20051102161134.25f3b85d.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20051030235440.6938a0e9.akpm@osdl.org> <27700000.1130769270@[10.10.2.4]> <4366A8D1.7020507@yahoo.com.au> <4366C559.5090504@yahoo.com.au> <4366D469.2010202@yahoo.com.au> <20051101135651.GA8502@elte.hu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 445 Lines: 12 Mel Gorman wrote: > > As GFP_ATOMIC and GFP_NOFS cannot do > any reclaim work themselves Both GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO can indeed perform direct reclaim. All we require is __GFP_WAIT. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/