From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 591A96B0055 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:44:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:45:21 +0300 (EEST) From: Pekka J Enberg Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] slab,slub: ignore __GFP_WAIT if we're booting or suspending In-Reply-To: <1244799389.7172.110.camel@pasglop> Message-ID: References: <20090612091002.GA32052@elte.hu> <1244798515.7172.99.camel@pasglop> <84144f020906120224v5ef44637pb849fd247eab84ea@mail.gmail.com> <1244799389.7172.110.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, npiggin@suse.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org, cl@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org List-ID: On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Take a break, take a step back, and look at the big picture. Do you > really want to find all the needles in the haystack or just make sure > you wear gloves when handling the hay ? :-) Well, I would like to find the needles but I think we should do it with gloves on. If everyone is happy with this version of Ben's patch, I'm going to just apply it and push it to Linus. Pekka