From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] raid5: allow r5l_io_unit allocations to fail Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 12:25:35 +0100 Message-ID: <20151218112535.GB28224@lst.de> References: <1450390197-19479-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> <1450390197-19479-4-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> <20151217234748.GA1860175@devbig084.prn1.facebook.com> <874mfg8qyc.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name> <20151218015847.GA2146501@devbig084.prn1.facebook.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151218015847.GA2146501@devbig084.prn1.facebook.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Shaohua Li Cc: NeilBrown , Christoph Hellwig , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids [can you trim your replies please? I had to trim almost 150 lines of junk before getting to your reply!] > > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&log->io_list_lock, flags); > > > > or is that too simplistic? > > maybe add a new list and run the list at the begining of r5l_do_reclaim(). What's the advantage of another list?