On Mon, 9 Apr 2018 04:46:22 +0000 "Bart Van Assche" <Bart.VanAssche@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2018-04-08 at 12:08 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 08, 2018 at 04:40:59PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote: > > > Do you perhaps want me to prepare a patch that makes > > > blk_get_request() again respect the full gfp mask passed as third > > > argument to blk_get_request()? > > > > I think that would be a good idea. If it's onerous to have extra > > arguments, there are some bits in gfp_flags which could be used for > > your purposes. > > That's indeed something we can consider. > > It would be appreciated if you could have a look at the patch below. > > Thanks, > > Bart. > > Why don't you fold the 'flags' argument into the 'gfp_flags', and drop the 'flags' argument completely? Looks a bit pointless to me, having two arguments denoting basically the same ... Cheers, Hannes
