Re: [PATCH 12/17] sparc: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT

[David Miller]

From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 11:14:54 +0200

> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> __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.
> 
> {pud,pmd}_alloc_one is using __GFP_REPEAT but it always allocates from
> pgtable_cache which is initialzed to PAGE_SIZE objects. This means that
> this flag has never been actually useful here because it has always been
> used only for PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY requests.
> 
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>