Re: [PATCH 06/19] arc: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT

[Vineet Gupta]

On Monday 11 April 2016 04:38 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> 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.
>
> pte_alloc_one_kernel uses __get_order_pte but this is obviously
> always zero because BITS_FOR_PTE is not larger than 9 yet the page
> size is always larger than 4K.  This means that this flag has never
> been actually useful here because it has always been used only for
> PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY requests.
>
> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thx,
-Vineet