Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 2 authors, 2011-06-30

Re: [PATCH] ext4: remove loop around bio_alloc()

From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: 2011-06-30 02:20:35

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:12:25AM +0800, Steven Liu wrote:
quoted
+       bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, min(nvecs, BIO_MAX_PAGES));
Is this needn't to check if bio_alloc success?
No, that was the point of this patch.  See the commit description.
Also see the comment for bio_alloc() in fs/bio.c, and note that
the __GFP_WAIT bit is set in GFP_NOFS.

Regards,

						- Ted
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