From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block,blkcg: use __GFP_NOWARN for best-effort allocations in blkcg
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:48:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161122164822.GA5459@htj.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7189b1f6-98c3-9a36-83c1-79f2ff4099af@suse.cz>
Hello,
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 04:47:49PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> Thanks. Makes me wonder whether we should e.g. add __GFP_NOWARN to
> GFP_NOWAIT globally at some point.
Yeah, that makes sense. The caller is explicitly saying that it's
okay to fail the allocation.
Thanks.
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tejun
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-22 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-21 15:43 4.8.8 kernel trigger OOM killer repeatedly when I have lots of RAM that should be free Marc MERLIN
2016-11-21 16:30 ` Marc MERLIN
2016-11-21 21:50 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-11-21 21:56 ` Marc MERLIN
2016-11-21 23:03 ` [PATCH] block,blkcg: use __GFP_NOWARN for best-effort allocations in blkcg Tejun Heo
2016-11-22 15:47 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-11-22 16:48 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2016-11-22 22:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-11-23 8:50 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-11-28 17:19 ` Tejun Heo
2016-11-29 7:25 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-29 16:38 ` Tejun Heo
2016-11-29 16:57 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-11-29 17:13 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-29 17:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-11-29 17:28 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-29 17:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-11-22 16:00 ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-22 16:06 ` 4.8.8 kernel trigger OOM killer repeatedly when I have lots of RAM that should be free Marc MERLIN
2016-11-22 16:14 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-11-22 16:25 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-22 16:47 ` Marc MERLIN
2016-11-22 16:38 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-11-29 16:25 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-29 16:43 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-11-22 19:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-11-23 6:34 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-23 6:53 ` Hillf Danton
2016-11-23 7:00 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-23 9:18 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-11-28 7:23 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-28 20:55 ` Marc MERLIN
2016-11-29 15:55 ` Marc MERLIN
2016-11-29 16:07 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-29 16:34 ` Marc MERLIN
2016-11-29 17:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-11-29 17:40 ` Marc MERLIN
2016-11-29 18:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-11-30 17:47 ` Marc MERLIN
2016-11-30 18:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-11-30 18:21 ` Marc MERLIN
2016-11-30 18:27 ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-30 20:30 ` Tejun Heo
2016-12-01 13:50 ` Kent Overstreet
2016-12-01 18:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-12-01 18:30 ` Jens Axboe
2016-12-01 18:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-12-01 18:46 ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-29 20:11 ` Holger Hoffstätte
2016-11-29 23:01 ` Marc MERLIN
2016-11-30 13:58 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-05-02 4:12 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-05-02 7:44 ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-02 14:15 ` Marc MERLIN
2017-05-02 10:44 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-11-29 16:15 ` Marc MERLIN
2016-11-22 21:46 ` Simon Kirby
2016-11-28 8:06 ` Vlastimil Babka
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