Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:36:31 +1100 | From | David Chinner <> | Subject | Re: [xfs-masters] Re: [PATCH] xfs: kill kmem_zone init |
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On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 09:37:33AM +0200, Pekka J Enberg wrote: > Would > you accept patches to convert code under PF_FSTRANS to use KM_NOFS so we > can kill the check in kmem_flags_convert()?
No.
XFS is full of code that can be called under both PF_FSTRANS and !PF_FSTRANS contexts and hence recursion during allocation is context dependent. Rather than pollute >20 call sites throughout XFS with this check it got put in common code. Makes sense, yes?
Cheers,
Dave. -- Dave Chinner R&D Software Enginner SGI Australian Software Group - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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