linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/8] cfq-iosched: remove @gfp_mask from cfq_find_alloc

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Message-ID: <20150609030147.GK21465@mtj.duckdns.org>
Date:	Tue, 9 Jun 2015 12:01:47 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Cc:	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>, axboe@...nel.dk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	avanzini.arianna@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] cfq-iosched: remove @gfp_mask from
 cfq_find_alloc_queue()

On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 05:19:30PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> Whatever we end up using, may be it is a good idea to use same policy
> for block group allocation too. Right now we use GFP_ATOMIC for blkcg
> allocation.
> 
> So this will be equivalent of that when memory is low, we don't provide
> service differentiation.

Yeap, I'll add a patch to convert all optional allocations to
GFP_NOWAIT.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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