From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:03:31 +0200 Message-ID: <1282658611.2605.2781.camel@laptop> References: <1282656558.2605.2742.camel@laptop> <20100824135522.GK31488@dastard> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Cc: David Rientjes , Andrew Morton , Neil Brown , Alasdair G Kergon , Chris Mason , Steven Whitehouse , Jens Axboe , Jan Kara , Frederic Weisbecker , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, cluster-devel@redhat.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Chinner Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100824135522.GK31488@dastard> List-ID: On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 23:55 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > no one has noticed > that XFS has been doing these "allocations can't fail" loop in > kmem_alloc() and kmem_zone_alloc(), well, forever I occasionally check if its still there and cry a little ;-)