From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mhocko@kernel.org (Michal Hocko) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 16:46:55 +0100 Subject: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] few MM topics In-Reply-To: <20180131234126.oobqdp6ibcayduu3@destitution> References: <20180124092649.GC21134@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20180131192104.GD4841@magnolia> <20180131202438.GA21609@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20180131234126.oobqdp6ibcayduu3@destitution> Message-ID: <20180201154655.GN21609@dhcp22.suse.cz> On Thu 01-02-18 10:41:26, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018@09:24:38PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: [...] > > This would both document the context > > and also limit NOFS allocations to bare minumum. > > Yup, most of XFS already uses implicit GFP_NOFS allocation calls via > the transaction context process flag manipulation. Yeah, xfs is in quite a good shape. There are still around 40+ KM_NOFS users. Are there any major obstacles to remove those? Or is this just "send patches" thing. Compare that to $ git grep GFP_NOFS -- fs/btrfs/ | wc -l 272 -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs