Re: [PATCH 06/12] mm, page_alloc: Use masks and shifts when converting GFP flags to migrate types

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 08/24/2015 02:09 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> This patch redefines which GFP bits are used for specifying mobility and
> the order of the migrate types. Once redefined it's possible to convert
> GFP flags to a migrate type with a simple mask and shift. The only downside
> is that readers of OOM kill messages and allocation failures may have been
> used to the existing values but scripts/gfp-translate will help.

Yeah after patches 7 and 8, this is not much of a concern :)

> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

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