Re: [PATCH] jbd2: get rid of open coded allocation retry loop

[Michal Hocko]

On Mon 15-06-15 15:47:04, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 04:17:34PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > insert_revoke_hash does an open coded endless allocation loop if
> > journal_oom_retry is true. It doesn't implement any allocation fallback
> > strategy between the retries, though. The memory allocator doesn't know
> > about the never fail requirement so it cannot potentially help to move
> > on with the allocation (e.g. use memory reserves).
> > 
> > Get rid of the retry loop and use __GFP_NOFAIL instead. We will lose the
> > debugging message but I am not sure it is anyhow helpful.
> > 
> > Do the same for journal_alloc_journal_head which is doing a similar
> > thing.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks, applied.

Thanks!
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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