Hello, Kent. On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 01:24:35PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote: > And at that point, why duplicate that line of code? It doesn't matter that > much, but IMO a goto retry better labels what's actually going on (it's > something that's not uncommon in the kernel and if I see a retry label > in a function I pretty immediately have an idea of what's going on). > > So we could do > > retry: > p = mempool_alloc(bs->bio_pool, gfp_mask); > if (!p && gfp_mask != saved_gfp) { > punt_bios_to_rescuer(bs); > gfp_mask = saved_gfp; > goto retry; > } Yes, we do retry loops if that makes the code simpler. Doing that to save one extra alloc call, I don't think so. Thanks. -- tejun -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel