Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm: teach mm by current context info to not doI/O during memory allocation
From: Ming Lei
Date: Mon Oct 15 2012 - 10:41:41 EST
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Instead of allow/forbid, the API should be save/restore (like
> local_irq_save and local_irq_restore). This makes nesting much easier.
Good point.
> Also, do we really the "p" argument? This is not at all likely to be
> used with any task other than the current one.
Yes, only 'current' can be passed now. I keep it because no performance
effect with macro implementation. But that is not good since it may
cause misuse. Will remove the 'p' argument.
Thanks,
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Ming Lei
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