From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] mempool: add mempool_{alloc,free}_bulk
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 16:00:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251106150049.GA16252@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f933b80c-0170-4c0c-bf91-7c862127e96d@suse.cz>
On Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 03:57:13PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > I think the only reason mempool_alloc even allows !__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM
> > is to avoid special casing that in callers that have a non-constant
> > gfp mask. So maybe the best thing would be to never actually go to
> > the pool for them and just give up if alloc_fn fails?
>
> Yeah, but I guess we could keep trying the pool for the single allocation
> case as that's simple enough, just not for the bulk.
Doing that will be quite a bit more complicated I think. And given
that the !__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM handlers must be able to handle failure
I'm also not sure that using the pool is all that useful.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-06 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-31 9:34 move blk-crypto-fallback to sit above the block layer Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-31 9:34 ` [PATCH 1/9] mempool: update kerneldoc comments Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-05 14:02 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-11-05 14:14 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-11-07 3:26 ` Eric Biggers
2025-11-07 12:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-31 9:34 ` [PATCH 2/9] mempool: add error injection support Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-05 14:04 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-11-07 3:29 ` Eric Biggers
2025-11-07 12:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-31 9:34 ` [PATCH 3/9] mempool: add mempool_{alloc,free}_bulk Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-05 15:04 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-11-06 14:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-06 14:27 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-11-06 14:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-06 14:57 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-11-06 15:00 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2025-11-06 15:09 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-11-07 3:52 ` Eric Biggers
2025-11-07 12:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-31 9:34 ` [PATCH 4/9] fscrypt: pass a real sector_t to fscrypt_zeroout_range_inline_crypt Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-07 3:55 ` Eric Biggers
2025-11-07 12:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-31 9:34 ` [PATCH 5/9] fscrypt: keep multiple bios in flight in fscrypt_zeroout_range_inline_crypt Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-07 4:06 ` Eric Biggers
2025-10-31 9:34 ` [PATCH 6/9] blk-crypto: optimize bio splitting in blk_crypto_fallback_encrypt_bio Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-14 0:22 ` Eric Biggers
2025-11-14 5:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-31 9:34 ` [PATCH 7/9] blk-crypto: handle the fallback above the block layer Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-07 4:42 ` Eric Biggers
2025-11-07 12:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-14 0:37 ` Eric Biggers
2025-11-14 5:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-31 9:34 ` [PATCH 8/9] blk-crypto: use on-stack skciphers for fallback en/decryption Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-07 4:18 ` Eric Biggers
2025-11-07 12:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-14 0:32 ` Eric Biggers
2025-11-14 5:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-31 9:34 ` [PATCH 9/9] blk-crypto: use mempool_alloc_bulk for encrypted bio page allocation Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-05 15:12 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-11-06 14:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
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