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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] few MM topics
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 16:46:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180201154655.GN21609@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180131234126.oobqdp6ibcayduu3@destitution>

On Thu 01-02-18 10:41:26, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 09:24:38PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> > This would both document the context
> > and also limit NOFS allocations to bare minumum.
> 
> Yup, most of XFS already uses implicit GFP_NOFS allocation calls via
> the transaction context process flag manipulation.

Yeah, xfs is in quite a good shape. There are still around 40+ KM_NOFS
users. Are there any major obstacles to remove those? Or is this just
"send patches" thing.

Compare that to
$ git grep GFP_NOFS -- fs/btrfs/ | wc -l
272
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-01 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-24  9:26 Michal Hocko
2018-01-24 18:23 ` Mike Kravetz
2018-01-25 10:02   ` Michal Hocko
2018-01-25  9:37 ` Jan Kara
2018-01-31 19:21 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-01-31 20:24   ` Michal Hocko
2018-01-31 23:41     ` Dave Chinner
2018-02-01 15:46       ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2018-02-01 22:47         ` [Lsf-pc] " Dave Chinner

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