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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: hch@infradead.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [RFC]xfs: using GFP_NOFS for blkdev_issue_flush
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:37:46 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120418013746.GL6734@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F8BC30D.5040601@kernel.org>

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 02:58:21PM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> On 4/16/12 2:49 PM, Shaohua Li wrote:
> >
> >flush request is issued in transaction commit code path usually, so
> >looks using
> >GFP_KERNEL to allocate memory for flush request bio falls into the classic
> >deadlock issue (memory reclaim recursion). Use GFP_NOFS to avoid recursion
> >from reclaim context. Per Dave Chinner, there is only blkdev_issue_flush
> >might
> >be buggy here. But using GFP_NOFS by default for all calls should not
> >matter.

Can you update the commit message like I suggested previously?

Cheers,

Dave.

-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-18  1:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-16  6:49 [RFC]xfs: using GFP_NOFS for blkdev_issue_flush Shaohua Li
2012-04-16  6:58 ` Shaohua Li
2012-04-17 18:42   ` Mark Tinguely
2012-04-18  1:37   ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2012-04-24 13:23     ` Shaohua Li
2012-04-25  0:25       ` Dave Chinner

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