Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] mm/vmalloc: add support for __GFP_NOFAIL

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On Thu 25-11-21 19:02:09, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
[...]
> Therefore i root for simplification and OOM related concerns :) But
> maybe there will be other opinions.

I have to say that I disagree with your view. I am not sure we have
other precedence where an allocator would throw away the primary
allocation just because a metadata allocation failure.

In any case, if there is a wider consensus that we really want to do
that I can rework. I would prefer to keep the patch as is though.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs



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