Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754515Ab0HYVWI (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:22:08 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:46363 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753962Ab0HYVWE convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:22:04 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc From: Peter Zijlstra To: Christoph Lameter Cc: David Rientjes , Dave Chinner , "Ted Ts'o" , Jens Axboe , Andrew Morton , Neil Brown , Alasdair G Kergon , Chris Mason , Steven Whitehouse , Jan Kara , Frederic Weisbecker , "linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" , "cluster-devel@redhat.com" , "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" , "reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: References: <1282656558.2605.2742.camel@laptop> <4C73CA24.3060707@fusionio.com> <20100825112433.GB4453@thunk.org> <1282736132.2605.3563.camel@laptop> <20100825115709.GD4453@thunk.org> <1282740516.2605.3644.camel@laptop> <20100825132417.GQ31488@dastard> <1282743342.2605.3707.camel@laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:21:31 +0200 Message-ID: <1282771291.1975.125.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 716 Lines: 17 On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 16:11 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > We already have __GFP_NOFAIL behavior for slab allocations since > a __GFP_NOFAIL flag is passed through to the page allocator if no objects > are available. > > The page allocator will do the same as when called directly with > __GFP_NOFAIL and so we have consistent behavior regardless of the > allocator used. Thank's for quoting the context to which you're replying, that really helps parsing things.. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/