linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: ibmvfc: don't check for failure from mempool

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Date:   Tue, 18 Apr 2017 21:51:28 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
Cc:     "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: ibmvfc: don't check for failure from mempool_alloc()

NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com> writes:

> mempool_alloc() cannot fail when passed GFP_NOIO or any other gfp
> setting that is permitted to sleep.  So remove this pointless code.

Applied to 4.12/scsi-queue. Thanks!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering