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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:59:55 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> To: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@...hat.com>, Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>, Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>, "linux-raid@...r.kernel.org" <linux-raid@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>, "cluster-devel@...hat.com" <cluster-devel@...hat.com>, "linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, "reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org" <reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Ted Ts'o wrote: > A pool of free pages which is reserved for routines that are doing > page cleaning would probably also be a good idea. Maybe that's just > retrying with GFP_ATOMIC if a normal allocation fails, or maybe we > need our own special pool, or maybe we need to dynamically resize the > GFP_ATOMIC pool based on how many subsystems might need to use it.... > PF_MEMALLOC is used for those tasks, not GFP_ATOMIC. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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