linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] mm: Add memalloc

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Message-ID: <20200924003902.GA10500@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 23 Sep 2020 20:39:02 -0400
From:   Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
To:     "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
        dm-devel@...hat.com, Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] mm: Add memalloc_nowait

On Thu, Jun 25 2020 at  7:31am -0400,
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org> wrote:

> Similar to memalloc_noio() and memalloc_nofs(), memalloc_nowait()
> guarantees we will not sleep to reclaim memory.  Use it to simplify
> dm-bufio's allocations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>
> ---
>  drivers/md/dm-bufio.c    | 30 ++++++++----------------------
>  include/linux/sched.h    |  1 +
>  include/linux/sched/mm.h | 12 ++++++++----
>  3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)


Hi,

Curious on the state of this patchset?  Not seeing it in next-20200923

The dm-bufio cleanup looks desirable.

Thanks,
Mike