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From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sesse@google.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Lingzhu Xiang <lingzhu.xiang@mail.utoronto.ca>,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	USB list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add support for usbfs zerocopy.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 11:00:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1452592833.6017.2.camel@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160111161504.GG10641@char.us.oracle.com>

On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 11:15 -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:08:26PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> > I suspect many drivers to be unable to deal well with a failure.
> > Having this report makes "my device doesn't work" easier to solve
> > as a bug report.
> > 
> > Hence it seems to me that a driver which can handle a failure
> > with a good fallback should indicate this with a flag to the
> > VM layer.
> 
> s/VM/device layer?

Actually no, if a driver does something that cannot be satisfied at all,
that should be logged. What we would like to go away is the log entry
due to a failure to allocate memory under memory pressure or
fragmentation.

	Regards
		Oliver

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-12 10:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1601051024110.1666-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
2016-01-05 16:27 ` Does vm_operations_struct require a .owner field? Alan Stern
2016-01-05 20:58   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-01-05 21:31     ` Alan Stern
2015-11-26  0:19       ` [PATCH] Add support for usbfs zerocopy Steinar H. Gunderson
2016-01-06  0:11         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-11-26  0:19           ` [PATCH v2] " Steinar H. Gunderson
2016-01-07  2:01             ` Lingzhu Xiang
2016-01-07 15:40               ` Alan Stern
2016-01-11 11:08                 ` Oliver Neukum
     [not found]                   ` <20160111161504.GG10641@char.us.oracle.com>
2016-01-12 10:00                     ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2016-01-09  4:00             ` Lingzhu Xiang
2016-01-09 10:57               ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2016-01-24 21:12             ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-01-25  8:03               ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2016-02-02 10:34                 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2016-02-03 21:23                 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-02-03 21:58                   ` [PATCH v4] " Steinar H. Gunderson
2016-02-03 22:09                   ` [PATCH v2] " Steinar H. Gunderson
2016-02-03 22:15                     ` Felipe Balbi
2016-02-03 23:40                       ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2016-02-04 10:17                         ` Bjørn Mork
2016-02-04 10:26                           ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2016-02-12 20:55                     ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2016-01-06  0:24           ` [PATCH] " Steinar H. Gunderson
2016-01-06  6:49         ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-01-06 14:45           ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2016-01-06 15:22             ` Peter Stuge
2016-01-06 15:36               ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2016-01-06 15:39               ` Alan Stern
2016-01-06 15:35             ` Alan Stern
2016-01-08  9:45               ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-01-08 10:22                 ` David Laight
2016-01-08 16:02                 ` Oliver Neukum
2016-01-12 21:26                 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2016-01-12 22:05                   ` Alan Stern
2016-01-13  6:59                     ` Lingzhu Xiang
2016-01-13 17:21                       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-01-08  9:43             ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-24 19:30         ` Sasha Levin
2016-02-24 19:33           ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2016-01-05 23:54       ` Does vm_operations_struct require a .owner field? Steinar H. Gunderson

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