From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel Becker Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:29:23 -0800 Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2/dlmfs: use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_NOFS In-Reply-To: <20101117011235.GA2289@laptop.jp.oracle.com> References: <201011161537.oAG4gEQI002875@acsinet15.oracle.com> <4CE2BD0C.3020501@oracle.com> <20101117011235.GA2289@laptop.jp.oracle.com> Message-ID: <20101117232923.GH25677@mail.oracle.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:12:35AM +0800, Wengang Wang wrote: > On 10-11-16 09:19, Sunil Mushran wrote: > > We do NOFS allocs in the dlm to prevent deadlocks (not live locks). > > And you are right we don't have to do NOFS allocs here. But the sizes > > we are talking about are really small. Do we really care? > > I didn't hit problem at the allocation with NOFS. > I just noticed it when looking at the codes. > Since the sizes are small, it shouldn't effects much. I'm going to vote -EDONTCARE. Joel -- "Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate." - Thomas Jones Joel Becker Senior Development Manager Oracle E-mail: joel.becker at oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127