From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932455Ab2IJUkT (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:40:19 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:51032 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932152Ab2IJUkP (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:40:15 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:40:10 -0700 From: Tejun Heo To: Kent Overstreet Cc: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, axboe@kernel.dk, Vivek Goyal , Mikulas Patocka , bharrosh@panasas.com, david@fromorbit.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] block: Avoid deadlocks with bio allocation by stacking drivers Message-ID: <20120910204010.GA32310@google.com> References: <1347055973-11581-1-git-send-email-koverstreet@google.com> <1347055973-11581-3-git-send-email-koverstreet@google.com> <20120908193641.GB12773@dhcp-172-17-108-109.mtv.corp.google.com> <20120910002810.GA23241@moria.home.lan> <20120910172210.GC14103@google.com> <20120910202435.GG16360@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120910202435.GG16360@google.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, Kent. On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 01:24:35PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote: > And at that point, why duplicate that line of code? It doesn't matter that > much, but IMO a goto retry better labels what's actually going on (it's > something that's not uncommon in the kernel and if I see a retry label > in a function I pretty immediately have an idea of what's going on). > > So we could do > > retry: > p = mempool_alloc(bs->bio_pool, gfp_mask); > if (!p && gfp_mask != saved_gfp) { > punt_bios_to_rescuer(bs); > gfp_mask = saved_gfp; > goto retry; > } Yes, we do retry loops if that makes the code simpler. Doing that to save one extra alloc call, I don't think so. Thanks. -- tejun