linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 22/29] xfs: comment page allocation for nowait case in xfs_buf_find

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Message-ID: <ZOi1/yafn3HQFWnW@casper.infradead.org>
Date:   Fri, 25 Aug 2023 15:09:03 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Hao Xu <hao.xu@...ux.dev>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 22/29] xfs: comment page allocation for nowait case in
 xfs_buf_find_insert()

On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 09:54:24PM +0800, Hao Xu wrote:
> @@ -633,6 +633,8 @@ xfs_buf_find_insert(
>  	 * allocate the memory from the heap to minimise memory usage. If we
>  	 * can't get heap memory for these small buffers, we fall back to using
>  	 * the page allocator.
> +	 * xfs_buf_alloc_kmem may return -EAGAIN, let's not return it but turn
> +	 * to page allocator as well.

This new sentence seems like it says exactly the same thing as the
previous sentence.  What am I missing?