From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Widespread misuse of GFP_ATOMIC
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 06:07:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160411060746.GA4298@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160410233205.GA19912@SDF.ORG>
GFP_NOWAIT is when you have a somewhat painless backup plan in case the
allocation fails. If you're worried that there are too many
GFP_ATOMICs, then it's better to re-arrange the code so the allocation
can sleep.
regards,
dan carpenter
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-11 6:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-10 23:32 Widespread misuse of GFP_ATOMIC coypu
2016-04-11 5:27 ` Julia Lawall
2016-04-11 6:07 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20160411060746.GA4298@mwanda \
--to=dan.carpenter@oracle.com \
--cc=kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.