On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:03:47 +0200 Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote: > So do > you think that we should keep __GFP_NOFAIL as long as all callers are not > able to handle allocation failures in more reasonable way? The concept should be encapsulated in _some_ centralised fashion. Helper functions would work as well as __GFP_NOFAIL, and will move any runtime cost away from the good code and push it onto the bad code. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html