Re: [PATCH 1/9] add defrag flags

From: Kyle Moffett
Date: Mon Sep 26 2005 - 19:17:04 EST


On Sep 26, 2005, at 16:03:30, Joel Schopp wrote:
The flags are:
__GFP_USER, which corresponds to easily reclaimable pages
__GFP_KERNRCLM, which corresponds to userspace pages

Uhh, call me crazy, but don't those flags look a little backwards to you? Maybe it's just me, but wouldn't it make sense to expect __GFP_USER to be a userspace allocation and __GFP_KERNRCLM to be an easily reclaimable kernel page?

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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