On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Dave Chinner wrote: > > git grep GFP_NOFAIL isn't auditable enough? > > > > might as well declare these functions depricated if you really want to > > do this. > > Also, if you are going to add tight loops, you might want to put a > backoff in the loops like "congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50);" so > that they don't spin.... >
These loops don't actually loop at all, all users are passing order < PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER which implicitly loop forever in the page allocator without killing anything (they are all GFP_NOIO or GFP_NOFS, so the oom killer isn't involved). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
