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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] jbd: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:11:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100823151129.433875d9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100823220347.GB3380@quack.suse.cz>

On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:03:47 +0200
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:

> So do
> you think that we should keep __GFP_NOFAIL as long as all callers are not
> able to handle allocation failures in more reasonable way?

The concept should be encapsulated in _some_ centralised fashion.

Helper functions would work as well as __GFP_NOFAIL, and will move any
runtime cost away from the good code and push it onto the bad code.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-23 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <alpine.DEB.2.00.1008161953430.17924@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
2010-08-17  2:58 ` [patch 4/6] jbd: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL David Rientjes
2010-08-17  9:51   ` Jan Kara
2010-08-17 17:48     ` David Rientjes
2010-08-23 19:28     ` Andrew Morton
2010-08-23 22:03       ` Jan Kara
2010-08-23 22:11         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-08-23 22:21           ` Jan Kara
2010-08-23 22:22           ` David Rientjes

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