Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL

Previous message: [thread] [date] [author]
Next message: [thread] [date] [author]
From: David Rientjes
Date: Monday, August 23, 2010 - 1:08 pm

On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Andrew Morton wrote:


That would only serve as documentation of a caller that could potentially 
loop forever waiting for memory (which I did by adding "/* FIXME: this may 
potentially loop forever */") since all of the allocations in this 
patchset never loop in the code that was added, they already loop forever 
in the page allocator doing the same thing.  The hope is that kswapd will 
eventually be able to free memory since direct reclaim will usually fail 
for GFP_NOFS and we simply need to wait long enough for there to be 
memory.
--
Previous message: [thread] [date] [author]
Next message: [thread] [date] [author]

Messages in current thread:
[patch 0/6] remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 16, 7:57 pm)
[patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 16, 7:57 pm)
[patch 2/6] btrfs: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 16, 7:57 pm)
[patch 3/6] gfs2: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 16, 7:57 pm)
[patch 4/6] jbd: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 16, 7:58 pm)
[patch 5/6] ntfs: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 16, 7:58 pm)
[patch 6/6] reiserfs: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 16, 7:58 pm)
Re: [patch 4/6] jbd: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Tue Aug 17, 10:48 am)
Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, Andrew Morton, (Mon Aug 23, 12:26 pm)
Re: [patch 4/6] jbd: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, Andrew Morton, (Mon Aug 23, 12:28 pm)
Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 23, 12:35 pm)
Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, Andrew Morton, (Mon Aug 23, 12:51 pm)
Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, Andrew Morton, (Mon Aug 23, 1:01 pm)
Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 23, 1:03 pm)
Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 23, 1:08 pm)
Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, Pekka Enberg, (Mon Aug 23, 1:09 pm)
Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 23, 1:13 pm)
Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, Andrew Morton, (Mon Aug 23, 1:23 pm)
Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, Pekka Enberg, (Mon Aug 23, 1:29 pm)
Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 23, 1:37 pm)
Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 23, 1:40 pm)
Re: [patch 4/6] jbd: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, Andrew Morton, (Mon Aug 23, 3:11 pm)
Re: [patch 4/6] jbd: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 23, 3:22 pm)