Re: [PATCH] Avoid !__GFP_IO allocations to eat from memory reservations

[Daniel Phillips]

On Thursday 14 June 2001 14:59, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> --- linux/mm/page_alloc.c.orig	Thu Jun 14 11:00:14 2001
> +++ linux/mm/page_alloc.c	Thu Jun 14 11:32:56 2001
> @@ -453,6 +453,12 @@
>  				int progress = try_to_free_pages(gfp_mask);
>  				if (progress || gfp_mask & __GFP_IO)
>  					goto try_again;
> +				/*
> +				 * Fail in case no progress was made and the
> +				 * allocation may not be able to block on IO.
> +				 */
> +				else
> +					return NULL;
>  			}
>  		}
>  	}

Nitpick dept: the 'else' is redundant.

--
Daniel