Re: [PATCH 1/6] lightnvm: pblk: check for failed mempool alloc.

[Jens Axboe]

On 09/06/2017 09:12 AM, Javier GonzÃlez wrote:
>> On 6 Sep 2017, at 17.09, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 09/06/2017 09:08 AM, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 05:01:01PM +0200, Javier GonzÃlez wrote:
>>>> Check for failed mempool allocations and act accordingly.
>>>
>>> Are you sure it is needed? Quoting from mempool_alloc()s Documentation:
>>> "[...] Note that due to preallocation, this function *never* fails when called
>>> from process contexts. (it might fail if called from an IRQ context.) [...]"
>>
>> It's not needed, mempool() will never fail if __GFP_WAIT is set in the
>> mask. The use case here is GFP_KERNEL, which does include __GFP_WAIT.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification. Do you just drop the patch, or do you want
> me to re-send the series?

No need to resend. I'll pick up the others in a day or two, once people
have had some time to go over them.

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Jens Axboe