Re: [PATCH 3.2 73/87] fs: buffer: move allocation failure loop intothe allocator

[Ben Hutchings]

On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 10:13 -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 01:44:29PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 3.2.53-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > commit 84235de394d9775bfaa7fa9762a59d91fef0c1fc upstream.
> > 
> > Buffer allocation has a very crude indefinite loop around waking the
> > flusher threads and performing global NOFS direct reclaim because it can
> > not handle allocation failures.
> 
> Please don't apply this, it's part of a bigger series and was only
> tagged as a reminder.  I'll send the full series to stable when the
> current cgroup instabilities are ironed out, just to be sure these
> patches are not the problem.

OK, I'll drop this.

Ben.

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