Re: [patch 2/2] fs: buffer: move allocation failure loop into theallocator

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Dec 13 2013 - 11:46:21 EST


On Fri, 13 Dec 2013, Joonsoo Kim wrote:

> Could you review this patch?
> I think that we should merge it to fix the problem reported by Christian.

I'd be fine with clearing __GFP_NOFAIL but not with using the same flags
as for a higher order alloc. __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOWARN should be left
untouched for the minimal alloc.

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