Re: [patch 4/6] jbd: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL
From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Aug 23 2010 - 18:11:45 EST
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:03:47 +0200
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> So do
> you think that we should keep __GFP_NOFAIL as long as all callers are not
> able to handle allocation failures in more reasonable way?
The concept should be encapsulated in _some_ centralised fashion.
Helper functions would work as well as __GFP_NOFAIL, and will move any
runtime cost away from the good code and push it onto the bad code.
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