[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2/dlmfs: use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_NOFS

Joel Becker Joel.Becker at oracle.com
Wed Nov 17 15:29:23 PST 2010


On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:12:35AM +0800, Wengang Wang wrote:
> On 10-11-16 09:19, Sunil Mushran wrote:
> > We do NOFS allocs in the dlm to prevent deadlocks (not live locks).
> > And you are right we don't have to do NOFS allocs here. But the sizes
> > we are talking about are really small. Do we really care?
> 
> I didn't hit problem at the allocation with NOFS.
> I just noticed it when looking at the codes.
> Since the sizes are small, it shouldn't effects much.

	I'm going to vote -EDONTCARE.

Joel

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