Re: [PATCH 6/6] mm: Add memalloc_nowait

From: Mike Snitzer
Date: Wed Sep 23 2020 - 20:39:14 EST


On Thu, Jun 25 2020 at 7:31am -0400,
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Similar to memalloc_noio() and memalloc_nofs(), memalloc_nowait()
> guarantees we will not sleep to reclaim memory. Use it to simplify
> dm-bufio's allocations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/md/dm-bufio.c | 30 ++++++++----------------------
> include/linux/sched.h | 1 +
> include/linux/sched/mm.h | 12 ++++++++----
> 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)


Hi,

Curious on the state of this patchset? Not seeing it in next-20200923

The dm-bufio cleanup looks desirable.

Thanks,
Mike