From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
axboe@kernel.dk, Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] block: use GFP_KERNEL for allocations from blk_get_request
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 19:21:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180409172158.GB5697@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180409165203.GE11756@bombadil.infradead.org>
On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 09:52:03AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 05:39:16PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > blk_get_request is used for pass-through style I/O and thus doesn't need
> > GFP_NOIO.
>
> Obviously GFP_KERNEL is a big improvement over GFP_NOIO! But can we take
> it all the way to GFP_USER, if this is always done in the ioctl path
> (which it seems to be, except for nfsd, which presumably won't have
> a cpuset memory allocation policy ... and if it did, the admin might
> appreciate it honouring said policy).
GFP_USER claims to be for allocations mapped into userspace, and except
for a few outliers that is how we use it. I see no reason to change
that here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-09 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-09 15:39 [RFC] fix confusion around GFP_* flags and blk_get_request Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-09 15:39 ` [PATCH 1/7] scsi/osd: remove the gfp argument to osd_start_request Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-09 15:39 ` [PATCH 2/7] block: fix __get_request documentation Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-09 15:39 ` [PATCH 3/7] block: sanitize blk_get_request calling conventions Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-10 6:26 ` Hannes Reinecke
2018-04-09 15:39 ` [PATCH 4/7] block: pass explicit gfp_t to get_request Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-10 6:27 ` Hannes Reinecke
2018-04-09 15:39 ` [PATCH 5/7] block: use GFP_NOIO instead of __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-10 6:27 ` Hannes Reinecke
2018-04-09 15:39 ` [PATCH 6/7] block: consistently use GFP_NOIO instead of __GFP_NORECLAIM Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-09 16:03 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-09 17:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-10 6:28 ` Hannes Reinecke
2018-04-09 15:39 ` [PATCH 7/7] block: use GFP_KERNEL for allocations from blk_get_request Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-09 16:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-09 17:21 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-04-10 6:29 ` Hannes Reinecke
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