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Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:06:01 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/28] mm: __GFP_MEMALLOC
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:46:19 +0100 Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:

> __GFP_MEMALLOC will allow the allocation to disregard the watermarks, 
> much like PF_MEMALLOC.
> 

'twould be nice if the changelog had some explanation of the reason
for this change.