[Drbd-dev] [PATCH] drbd: Avoid GFP_KERNEL allocation from alloc_send_buffer()

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel at i-love.sakura.ne.jp
Fri Apr 26 12:07:03 CEST 2019


On 2019/04/26 18:29, Philipp Reisner wrote:
>> If you guarantee that page count drops to 1 by waiting for the previous
>> send_page() to finish, GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN or GFP_NOIO |
>> __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN should be used instead of GFP_NOIO |
>> __GFP_NOWARN.
> 
> Ack. Do you want to send a patch that turns the current master into
> GFP_NOIO | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN
> ?
> 
> I will ack and apply it.
> 
> cheers.
> 

You can write that patch. Thank you for responding.


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