Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL

[David Rientjes]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> My point is that I don't think Andrew's helper will change all that
> much. Fixing the actual callers is the hard part and I don't see your
> patches helping that either. Hiding the looping in filesystem code is
> only going to make problematic callers harder to find (e.g
> kmem_alloc() in XFS code).
> 

Nothing is getting hidden in the callers here, all of the patches in this 
series are using __GFP_NOFAIL unnecessarily.
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