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From: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [xfs-masters] [RESEND][PATCH 6/7] xfs: Remove code handling
	bio_alloc failure with __GFP_WAIT
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:53:35 +0530
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On Monday 20 April 2009 06:32:37 Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 04:09:30PM +0530, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> > Resending as I accidentally missed Jens earlier.
> >
> > Jens, can you merge this as well.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Nikanth
> >
> > Remove code handling bio_alloc failure with __GFP_WAIT.
> > GFP_NOIO implies __GFP_WAIT.
>
> Not sure that is right. The intent of the code is that if we can't
> get a large bio immediately, try a smaller one which is more likely
> to succeed when we are under memory pressure. i.e. we will get IO
> moving faster than if we waited for a maximally sized biovec to be
> allocated.
>
> IOWs, I don't think __GFP_WAIT is implied by this code, regardless
> of what GFP_NOIO actually means now. The same code fragment can be
> found in NILFS, and it uses GFP_NOWAIT, not GFP_NOIO. I suspect that
> this is what this XFS code should be changed to use to retain the
> original intent of the code....
>

Yes, if that is the intent, it needs to be changed as GFP_NOWAIT. Otherwise 
the first attempt to get a larger bio itself would return only after it 
succeeds, which makes the logic useless.

Thanks
Nikanth

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