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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@novell.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>,
	xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Handle bio_alloc failure
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:18:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090414111838.GG5178@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200904141636.26557.knikanth@novell.com>

On Tue, Apr 14 2009, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> Hi Jens
> 
> Some of the callers of bio_alloc() assume that it will never fail and always 
> return bios. But it can fail. This patch set changes those callers to take 
> action when bio_alloc() fails.

It will not fail as long as __GFP_WAIT is set, which it is for all 6 of
your patches.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-14 11:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-14 11:06 [PATCH 0/6] Handle bio_alloc failure Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-04-14 11:18 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2009-04-14 11:41   ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-04-14 18:16     ` Theodore Tso
2009-04-14 18:20       ` Jens Axboe
2009-04-14 18:33         ` Theodore Tso
2009-04-14 18:40           ` Jens Axboe
2009-04-14 18:46       ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-15  8:46         ` Nick Piggin

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