Re: [PATCH 3.2 73/87] fs: buffer: move allocation failure loop into the allocator
On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 10:13 -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote: > Hi Ben, > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 01:44:29PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > 3.2.53-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > -- > > > > From: Johannes Weiner > > > > commit 84235de394d9775bfaa7fa9762a59d91fef0c1fc upstream. > > > > Buffer allocation has a very crude indefinite loop around waking the > > flusher threads and performing global NOFS direct reclaim because it can > > not handle allocation failures. > > Please don't apply this, it's part of a bigger series and was only > tagged as a reminder. I'll send the full series to stable when the > current cgroup instabilities are ironed out, just to be sure these > patches are not the problem. OK, I'll drop this. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Usenet is essentially a HUGE group of people passing notes in class. - Rachel Kadel, `A Quick Guide to Newsgroup Etiquette' signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [PATCH 3.2 73/87] fs: buffer: move allocation failure loop into the allocator
Hi Ben, On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 01:44:29PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > 3.2.53-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > -- > > From: Johannes Weiner > > commit 84235de394d9775bfaa7fa9762a59d91fef0c1fc upstream. > > Buffer allocation has a very crude indefinite loop around waking the > flusher threads and performing global NOFS direct reclaim because it can > not handle allocation failures. Please don't apply this, it's part of a bigger series and was only tagged as a reminder. I'll send the full series to stable when the current cgroup instabilities are ironed out, just to be sure these patches are not the problem. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: [PATCH 3.2 73/87] fs: buffer: move allocation failure loop into the allocator
Hi Ben, On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 01:44:29PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: 3.2.53-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Johannes Weiner han...@cmpxchg.org commit 84235de394d9775bfaa7fa9762a59d91fef0c1fc upstream. Buffer allocation has a very crude indefinite loop around waking the flusher threads and performing global NOFS direct reclaim because it can not handle allocation failures. Please don't apply this, it's part of a bigger series and was only tagged as a reminder. I'll send the full series to stable when the current cgroup instabilities are ironed out, just to be sure these patches are not the problem. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: [PATCH 3.2 73/87] fs: buffer: move allocation failure loop into the allocator
On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 10:13 -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote: Hi Ben, On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 01:44:29PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: 3.2.53-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Johannes Weiner han...@cmpxchg.org commit 84235de394d9775bfaa7fa9762a59d91fef0c1fc upstream. Buffer allocation has a very crude indefinite loop around waking the flusher threads and performing global NOFS direct reclaim because it can not handle allocation failures. Please don't apply this, it's part of a bigger series and was only tagged as a reminder. I'll send the full series to stable when the current cgroup instabilities are ironed out, just to be sure these patches are not the problem. OK, I'll drop this. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Usenet is essentially a HUGE group of people passing notes in class. - Rachel Kadel, `A Quick Guide to Newsgroup Etiquette' signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
