From: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] zcache: fix preemptable memory allocation in atomic context
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:51:54 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE13ACA.7090301@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FE08C1A.2020308@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On 06/19/2012 10:26 PM, Seth Jennings wrote:
> Did you get a might_sleep warning on this? I haven't seen this being an
> issue.
>
No, i did not, i get it just from code review.
> GFP_ATOMIC only modifies the existing mask to allow allocation use the
> emergency pool. It is __GFP_WAIT not being set that prevents sleep. We
> don't want to use the emergency pool since we make large, long lived
> allocations with this mask.
>
Ah, yes, i thought only GFP_ATOMIC can prevent sleep, thank you very much
for pointing it out.
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-19 8:32 [PATCH 01/10] zcache: fix preemptable memory allocation in atomic context Xiao Guangrong
2012-06-19 8:33 ` [PATCH 02/10] zcache: fix refcount leak Xiao Guangrong
2012-06-19 14:28 ` Seth Jennings
2012-06-19 19:49 ` Dan Magenheimer
2012-06-19 20:06 ` Seth Jennings
2012-06-20 2:54 ` Xiao Guangrong
2012-06-20 3:19 ` Xiao Guangrong
2012-06-20 22:25 ` Dan Magenheimer
2012-06-21 1:44 ` Xiao Guangrong
2012-06-19 8:33 ` [PATCH 03/10] zcache: fix a compile warning Xiao Guangrong
2012-06-19 14:30 ` Seth Jennings
2012-06-20 2:55 ` Xiao Guangrong
2012-06-19 8:34 ` [PATCH 04/10] zcache: remove unnecessary check of config option dependence Xiao Guangrong
2012-06-19 14:36 ` Seth Jennings
2012-06-19 8:35 ` [PATCH 05/10] zcache: mark zbud_init/zcache_comp_init as __init Xiao Guangrong
2012-06-19 16:35 ` Seth Jennings
2012-06-19 8:35 ` [PATCH 06/10] zcache: cleanup zbud_init Xiao Guangrong
2012-06-19 8:35 ` [PATCH 07/10] zcache: optimize zcache_do_preload Xiao Guangrong
2012-06-19 8:36 ` [PATCH 08/10] zcache: cleanup zcache_do_preload and zcache_put_page Xiao Guangrong
2012-06-19 8:37 ` [PATCH 09/10] zcache: introduce get_zcache_client Xiao Guangrong
2012-06-19 8:37 ` [PATCH 10/10] cleanup the code between tmem_obj_init and tmem_obj_find Xiao Guangrong
2012-06-19 16:49 ` Seth Jennings
2012-06-20 2:53 ` Xiao Guangrong
2012-06-19 14:26 ` [PATCH 01/10] zcache: fix preemptable memory allocation in atomic context Seth Jennings
2012-06-20 2:51 ` Xiao Guangrong [this message]
2012-06-21 18:51 ` Seth Jennings
2012-06-23 3:00 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-06-25 13:48 ` Seth Jennings
2012-06-25 14:11 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-06-26 7:08 ` Xiao Guangrong
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