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From: David Rientjes
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Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc
Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - 1:59 pm
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Ted Ts'o wrote:
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> A pool of free pages which is reserved for routines that are doing > page cleaning would probably also be a good idea. Maybe that's just > retrying with GFP_ATOMIC if a normal allocation fails, or maybe we > need our own special pool, or maybe we need to dynamically resize the > GFP_ATOMIC pool based on how many subsystems might need to use it.... >
PF_MEMALLOC is used for those tasks, not GFP_ATOMIC. --
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, (Tue Aug 24, 3:50 am)
[patch 5/5] ntfs: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL
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Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc ...
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