> On 6 Sep 2017, at 17.13, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 09/06/2017 09:12 AM, Javier González wrote: >>> On 6 Sep 2017, at 17.09, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> On 09/06/2017 09:08 AM, Johannes Thumshirn wrote: >>>> On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 05:01:01PM +0200, Javier González wrote: >>>>> Check for failed mempool allocations and act accordingly. >>>> >>>> Are you sure it is needed? Quoting from mempool_alloc()s Documentation: >>>> "[...] Note that due to preallocation, this function *never* fails when called >>>> from process contexts. (it might fail if called from an IRQ context.) [...]" >>> >>> It's not needed, mempool() will never fail if __GFP_WAIT is set in the >>> mask. The use case here is GFP_KERNEL, which does include __GFP_WAIT. >> >> Thanks for the clarification. Do you just drop the patch, or do you want >> me to re-send the series? > > No need to resend. I'll pick up the others in a day or two, once people > have had some time to go over them. > Thanks. And apologies for the delay on the patches... Javier
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