On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 03:43:11PM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote: > > Hmm. Since memory allocation is first tried with GFP_ATOMIC set and upon > failure retried in background, this seems like a situation which might > happen during normal use. If that already indicates a severe problem, > why retry in background at all?
It should be tried in the background first at 70% and only when that fails would we hit the 100% case and then we will try it with GFP_ATOMIC. If that fails then the insertion will fail. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
