Re: [RFC 11/13] mm, compaction: add the ultimate direct compaction priority

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Wed May 18 2016 - 08:47:00 EST


On 05/16/2016 09:17 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>Wouldn't it be better to pull the prio check into compaction_deferred
>directly? There are more callers and I am not really sure all of them
>would behave consistently.
I'll check, thanks.

Hm so the other callers of compaction_deferred() are in the context where there's no direct compaction priority set. They would have to pass something like DEF_COMPACT_PRIORITY. That starts getting subtle so I'd rather not go that way.