Re: [PATCH] scsi: replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL for sdev allocation

From: Bart Van Assche
Date: Wed Feb 20 2019 - 14:11:36 EST


On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 19:48 +-0100, Benjamin Block wrote:
+AD4 We had a test-report where, under memory pressure, adding LUNs to the
+AD4 systems would fail (the tests add LUNs strictly in sequence):

Hi Benjamin,

There are two more instances of GFP+AF8-ATOMIC in scsi+AF8-scan.c. Have you verified
whether or not it is safe to change these into GFP+AF8-KERNEL too?

Thanks,

Bart.