Re: [PATCH 17/18] xfs: kill XBF_DONTBLOCK

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On 04/13/12 07:11, Dave Chinner wrote:
From: Dave Chinner<dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>

Just about all callers of xfs_buf_read() and xfs_buf_get() use XBF_DONTBLOCK.
This is used to make memory allocation use GFP_NOFS rather than GFP_KERNEL to
avoid recursion through memory reclaim back into the filesystem.

All the blocking get calls in growfs occur inside a transaction, even though
they are no part of the transaction, so all allocation will be GFP_NOFS due to
the task flag PF_TRANS being set. The blocking read calls occur during log
recovery, so they will probably be unaffected by converting to GFP_NOFS
allocations.

Hence make XBF_DONTBLOCK behaviour always occur for buffers and kill the flag.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner<dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig<hch@xxxxxx>
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Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@xxxxxxx>

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