From: Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfsd: more robust allocation failure handling in nfsd_reply_cache_init
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 11:52:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161020155231.GA4347@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzVnBqtk5Az3VNMQ=HfTUBSYyOVejHykU2c63K70s24=A@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 11:23:36AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 4:48 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > While this would be good to get in, I don't see any particular urgency
> > here. This seems like it'd be reasonable for v4.9.
>
> Agreed, looks ok to me. It certainly does not look like a new
> regression or like a serious problem issue in practice. So 4.9 sounds
> appropriate.
Gah, Jeff points out I forgot to merge this.
Jeff was also wondering whether we could instead just allocate this with
vmalloc--is there any drawback? We only allocate this on nfsd startup,
so if the only drawback is the allocation itself being expensive then
that's no big deal.
--b.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-20 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-30 11:48 [PATCH] nfsd: more robust allocation failure handling in nfsd_reply_cache_init Jeff Layton
2016-08-30 18:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-20 15:52 ` Bruce Fields [this message]
2016-10-20 16:09 ` Linus Torvalds
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