Re: Q: GFP_IO not in development kernels?

Dr. Werner Fink (werner@suse.de)
Thu, 8 Jan 1998 17:13:41 +0100


>
> I was just looking and in the 2.0.3x series a allocation priority
> GFP_IO was added. This affected things like shrink_mmap.
>
> Looking in 2.1.76, always running behind I know, I noticed that GFP_IO
> has not been added. Was this an oversight or has the problem been
> solved in some other way?

I've added this prio to avoid mostly unnecessary swapping for a buffer page
under exterm stress (without we would get disk I/O in O(2)). The belowing
problem is (or should be:) solved in 2.1.6x and higher.

Werner