Re: [PATCH UPDATED 2/2] mempool: fix first round failure behavior

[Tejun Heo]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 05:23:12PM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> I see.  It just seemed like a weird behavior and looking at the commit
> log, there was originally code to kick reclaim there, so the sequence
> made sense - first try w/o reclaim, look at the mempool, kick reclaim
> and retry w/ GFP_WAIT and then wait for someone else to free.  That
> part was removed by 20a77776c24 "[PATCH] mempool: simplify alloc" back
> in 05.  In the process, it also lost retry w/ reclaim before waiting
> for mempool reserves.

Oops, it isn't that relevant but the original code retried w/ reclaim
before looking at mempool if less than half were left in the pool.

-- 
tejun
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