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From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
To: Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.ibm.com>,
	"James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
	"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Steffen Maier <maier@linux.ibm.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL for sdev allocation
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:11:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1550689891.93548.31.camel@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190220184847.24640-1-bblock@linux.ibm.com>

On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 19:48 +0100, Benjamin Block wrote:
> We had a test-report where, under memory pressure, adding LUNs to the
> systems would fail (the tests add LUNs strictly in sequence):

Hi Benjamin,

There are two more instances of GFP_ATOMIC in scsi_scan.c. Have you verified
whether or not it is safe to change these into GFP_KERNEL too?

Thanks,

Bart.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-20 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-20 18:48 [PATCH] scsi: replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL for sdev allocation Benjamin Block
2019-02-20 19:11 ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2019-02-20 20:03   ` Benjamin Block
2019-02-21  9:18 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] scsi: replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL for allocations in scsi_scan.c Benjamin Block
2019-02-21  9:18   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] scsi: whitespace cleanup " Benjamin Block
2019-02-21 18:45   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] scsi: replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL for allocations " Bart Van Assche
2019-02-27 14:40   ` Martin K. Petersen

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