linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHSET] mempool, percpu, blkcg: fix percpu stat allocation and remove stats

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Message-ID: <20120223231204.GM22536@google.com>
Date:	Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:12:04 -0800
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	vgoyal@...hat.com
Cc:	axboe@...nel.dk, hughd@...gle.com, avi@...hat.com, nate@...nel.net,
	cl@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dpshah@...gle.com, ctalbott@...gle.com, rni@...gle.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] mempool, percpu, blkcg: fix percpu stat allocation
 and remove stats_lock

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 03:01:23PM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hmmm... going through the thread again, ah, okay, I forgot about that
> completely.  Yeah, that is an actual problem.  Both __GFP_WAIT which
> isn't GFP_KERNEL and GFP_KERNEL are valid use cases.  I guess we'll be
> building async percpu pool in blkcg then.  Great.  :(

Vivek, you win. :) Can you please refresh the async alloc patch on top
of blkcg-stacking branch?  I'll rool that into this series and drop
the mempool stuff.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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