Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc

Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-24T14:04:00Z

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 ;-)