On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 03:28:44PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > This basically reverts 47def82672b3 (jbd2: Remove __GFP_NOFAIL from jbd2 > layer). The deprecation of __GFP_NOFAIL was a bad choice because it led > to open coding the endless loop around the allocator rather than > removing the dependency on the non failing allocation. So the > deprecation was a clear failure and the reality tells us that > __GFP_NOFAIL is not even close to go away. > > It is still true that __GFP_NOFAIL allocations are generally discouraged > and new uses should be evaluated and an alternative (pre-allocations or > reservations) should be considered but it doesn't make any sense to lie > the allocator about the requirements. Allocator can take steps to help > making a progress if it knows the requirements. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> > Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Applied, thanks. - Ted -- 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
