Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Nov 02 2005 - 01:12:51 EST


Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
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