From: "Simmons, James A." <simmonsja@ornl.gov>
To: 'Greg Kroah-Hartman' <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: 'Julia Lawall' <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>,
"devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
"kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org"
<kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com>,
"HPDD-discuss@lists.01.org" <HPDD-discuss@ml01.01.org>
Subject: RE: [HPDD-discuss] [PATCH 2/11] Staging: lustre: fld: Use kzalloc and kfree
Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 22:57:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ca81374659ea4e1c8f62c779d052717e@EXCHCS32.ornl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150501204729.GA2265@kroah.com>
>> Yes the LARGE functions do the switching. I was expecting also patches to remove the
>> OBD_ALLOC_LARGE functions as well which is not the case here. I do have one question still. The
>> macro __OBD_MALLOC_VERBOSE allowed the ability to simulate memory allocation failures at
>> a certain percentage rate. Does something exist in the kernel to duplicate that functionality?
>
>Yes, no need for lustre to duplicate yet-another-thing the kernel
>already provides :)
The reason for this is that libcfs was written 10+ years ago which was before linux had such nice
features. At that time it was needed to fill the gaps missing which is no longer the case. Libcfs is
really showing its age :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-01 22:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-01 15:51 [PATCH 0/11] Use kzalloc and kfree Julia Lawall
2015-05-01 15:51 ` [PATCH 11/11] staging: lustre: ptlrpc: " Julia Lawall
2015-05-01 15:51 ` [PATCH 10/11] staging: lustre: osc: " Julia Lawall
2015-05-01 15:51 ` [PATCH 9/11] staging: lustre: obdecho: " Julia Lawall
2015-05-01 15:51 ` [PATCH 8/11] staging: lustre: obdclass: " Julia Lawall
2015-05-01 18:30 ` walter harms
2015-05-01 18:42 ` Julia Lawall
2015-05-01 15:51 ` [PATCH 7/11] staging: lustre: mgc: " Julia Lawall
2015-05-01 15:51 ` [PATCH 6/11] staging: lustre: mdc: " Julia Lawall
2015-05-01 15:51 ` [PATCH 5/11] staging: lustre: lmv: " Julia Lawall
2015-05-01 15:51 ` [PATCH 4/11] staging: lustre: ldlm: " Julia Lawall
2015-05-01 15:51 ` [PATCH 3/11] staging: lustre: lclient: " Julia Lawall
2015-05-01 15:51 ` [PATCH 2/11] Staging: lustre: fld: " Julia Lawall
2015-05-01 17:38 ` [HPDD-discuss] " Simmons, James A.
2015-05-01 17:48 ` Julia Lawall
2015-05-01 18:49 ` Drokin, Oleg
2015-05-01 20:18 ` Simmons, James A.
2015-05-01 20:47 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-01 22:57 ` Simmons, James A. [this message]
2015-05-01 20:49 ` Drokin, Oleg
2015-05-01 22:59 ` Simmons, James A.
2015-05-01 18:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-01 20:02 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-05-01 20:12 ` Drokin, Oleg
2015-05-01 20:36 ` Simmons, James A.
2015-05-01 20:49 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-01 20:52 ` Drokin, Oleg
2015-05-01 20:58 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-01 21:13 ` Drokin, Oleg
2015-05-02 6:02 ` Julia Lawall
2015-05-02 8:14 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-05-02 9:05 ` Julia Lawall
2015-05-03 3:12 ` Drokin, Oleg
2015-05-02 1:18 ` Simmons, James A.
2015-05-02 8:26 ` 'Greg Kroah-Hartman'
2015-05-02 17:17 ` Drokin, Oleg
2015-05-02 17:33 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-04 14:07 ` Simmons, James A.
2015-05-04 15:01 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-05-04 21:26 ` 'Greg Kroah-Hartman'
2015-05-01 15:51 ` [PATCH 1/11] staging: lustre: fid: " Julia Lawall
2015-05-03 18:17 ` [PATCH 0/11] " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-03 18:39 ` Julia Lawall
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