Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] mm/vmalloc: add support for __GFP_NOFAIL
From: Uladzislau Rezki
Date: Wed Nov 24 2021 - 15:46:34 EST
On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 09:09:08PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 23-11-21 20:01:50, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
> [...]
> > I have raised two concerns in our previous discussion about this change,
> > well that is sad...
>
> I definitely didn't mean to ignore any of the feedback. IIRC we were in
> a disagreement in the failure mode for retry loop - i.e. free all the
> allocated pages in case page table pages cannot be allocated. I still
> maintain my position and until there is a wider consensus on that I will
> keep my current implementation. The other concern was about failures
> warning but that shouldn't be a problem when basing on the current Linus
> tree. Am I missing something?
>
Sorry i was answering vice-versa from latest toward first messages :)
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Vlad Rezki