On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Andrew Morton wrote: > Hows about you add a helper function > > void *[kmalloc|alloc_page]_retrying_forever_because_i_suck(lots of args) > > then convert the callsites to use that, then nuke __GFP_NOFAIL? > That would only serve as documentation of a caller that could potentially loop forever waiting for memory (which I did by adding "/* FIXME: this may potentially loop forever */") since all of the allocations in this patchset never loop in the code that was added, they already loop forever in the page allocator doing the same thing. The hope is that kswapd will eventually be able to free memory since direct reclaim will usually fail for GFP_NOFS and we simply need to wait long enough for there to be memory. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
