Re: [patch 4/6] jbd: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL

[Jan Kara]

On Mon 23-08-10 15:11:29, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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.
  Makes sense. Removed the patch.

  David, could you provide a function for non-failing allocation and then
use this from JBD and whatever else code is also affected? That looks like
a cleaner solution as Andrew points out...

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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