Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 06:29:46PM -0800, Leech, Christopher ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > From: Chris Leech [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 6:29 PM > > To: > > Subject: [PATCH 2/8] [I/OAT] Driver for the Intel(R) I/OAT DMA engine > > > > > > Adds a new ioatdma driver > > enumerate_dma_channels() is still broken, if it can not fail add NOFAIL > gfp flag.
The __GFP_NOFAIL flag is there to mark lame-and-buggy-code which doesn't know how to handle ENOMEM. I went through the kernel, found all the retry-until-it-works loops and consolidated their behaviour in the page allocator instead. Really we should fix them all up. Adding new users of __GFP_NOFAIL would not be good. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
