On Mon 22-11-21 16:32:31, Michal Hocko wrote: > From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> > > Dave Chinner has mentioned that some of the xfs code would benefit from > kvmalloc support for __GFP_NOFAIL because they have allocations that > cannot fail and they do not fit into a single page. > > The large part of the vmalloc implementation already complies with the > given gfp flags so there is no work for those to be done. The area > and page table allocations are an exception to that. Implement a retry > loop for those. > > Add a short sleep before retrying. 1 jiffy is a completely random > timeout. Ideally the retry would wait for an explicit event - e.g. > a change to the vmalloc space change if the failure was caused by > the space fragmentation or depletion. But there are multiple different > reasons to retry and this could become much more complex. Keep the retry > simple for now and just sleep to prevent from hogging CPUs. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Are there still any concerns around this patch or the approach in general? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
