Re: [PATCH v3 13/14] mm, hugetlb: retry if failed to allocate andthere is concurrent user

From: Davidlohr Bueso
Date: Tue Jan 14 2014 - 23:38:35 EST


On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 19:08 -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
>
> > > If Andrew agree, It would be great to merge 1-7 patches into mainline
> > > before your mutex approach. There are some of clean-up patches and, IMO,
> > > it makes the code more readable and maintainable, so it is worth to merge
> > > separately.
> >
> > Fine by me.
> >
>
> It appears like patches 1-7 are still missing from linux-next, would you
> mind posting them in a series with your approach?

I haven't looked much into patches 4-7, but at least the first three are
ok. I was waiting for Andrew to take all seven for linux-next and then
I'd rebase my approach on top. Anyway, unless Andrew has any
preferences, if by later this week they're not picked up, I'll resend
everything.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/