linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP

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Date:	Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:40:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@...hat.com>,
	linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL

On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> My point is that I don't think Andrew's helper will change all that
> much. Fixing the actual callers is the hard part and I don't see your
> patches helping that either. Hiding the looping in filesystem code is
> only going to make problematic callers harder to find (e.g
> kmem_alloc() in XFS code).
> 

Nothing is getting hidden in the callers here, all of the patches in this 
series are using __GFP_NOFAIL unnecessarily.
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