From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch 6/6] jbd2: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:09:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100722230935.GB16373@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1007221108360.30080@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:09:53AM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
>
> I'll change this to
>
> do {
> new_transaction = kzalloc(sizeof(*new_transaction),
> GFP_NOFS);
> } while (!new_transaction);
>
> in the next phase when I introduce __GFP_KILLABLE (that jbd and jbd2 can't
> use because they are GFP_NOFS).
OK, I can carry a patch which does this in the ext4 tree to push to
linus when the merge window opens shortly, since the goal is you want
to get rid of __GFP_NOFAIL altogether, right?
- Ted
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-21 2:44 [patch 0/6] remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL for failable allocations David Rientjes
2010-07-21 2:44 ` [patch 1/6] sparc: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL David Rientjes
2010-07-21 2:44 ` David Rientjes
2010-07-21 3:31 ` David Miller
2010-07-21 3:31 ` David Miller
2010-07-21 9:41 ` David Rientjes
2010-07-21 9:41 ` David Rientjes
[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.1007201936210.8728-X6Q0R45D7oAcqpCFd4KODRPsWskHk0ljAL8bYrjMMd8@public.gmane.org>
2010-07-21 2:44 ` [patch 2/6] infiniband: " David Rientjes
2010-07-21 2:44 ` David Rientjes
[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.1007201938570.8728-X6Q0R45D7oAcqpCFd4KODRPsWskHk0ljAL8bYrjMMd8@public.gmane.org>
2010-07-21 3:19 ` Steve Wise
2010-07-21 3:19 ` Steve Wise
[not found] ` <4C466730.1070809-7bPotxP6k4+P2YhJcF5u+vpXobYPEAuW@public.gmane.org>
2010-07-21 17:55 ` Roland Dreier
2010-07-21 17:55 ` Roland Dreier
2010-07-21 2:45 ` [patch 3/6] fs: " David Rientjes
2010-07-21 2:45 ` David Rientjes
2010-07-23 19:36 ` Andrew Morton
2010-07-23 19:36 ` Andrew Morton
2010-07-23 19:51 ` David Rientjes
2010-07-23 21:12 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-07-23 21:12 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-07-21 2:45 ` [patch 4/6] gfs2: " David Rientjes
2010-07-21 9:24 ` [Cluster-devel] " Steven Whitehouse
2010-07-21 9:24 ` Steven Whitehouse
2010-07-21 9:31 ` David Rientjes
2010-07-21 2:45 ` [patch 6/6] jbd2: " David Rientjes
2010-07-22 14:14 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-07-22 18:09 ` David Rientjes
2010-07-22 23:09 ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2010-07-22 23:24 ` David Rientjes
2010-07-23 14:10 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-07-23 14:10 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-07-23 14:57 ` Jan Kara
2010-07-23 14:57 ` Jan Kara
2010-07-23 15:05 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-07-23 15:05 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-07-23 15:32 ` Jan Kara
2010-07-23 15:32 ` Jan Kara
2010-07-23 19:40 ` David Rientjes
2010-07-23 19:52 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-07-23 19:52 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-07-21 19:26 ` [patch 5/6] jbd: " David Rientjes
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