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From: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com>
To: "tj@kernel.org" <tj@kernel.org>,
	"paolo.valente@linaro.org" <paolo.valente@linaro.org>,
	"axboe@kernel.dk" <axboe@kernel.dk>
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	"linux-block@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
	"samuele.zecchini92@gmail.com" <samuele.zecchini92@gmail.com>,
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	"linus.walleij@linaro.org" <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
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	"broonie@kernel.org" <broonie@kernel.org>,
	"riccardo.pizzetti@gmail.com" <riccardo.pizzetti@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 11/16] block, bfq: reduce idling only in symmetric scenarios
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:20:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1490973609.2587.3.camel@sandisk.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170331124743.3530-12-paolo.valente@linaro.org>

On Fri, 2017-03-31 at 14:47 +0200, Paolo Valente wrote:
> +=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0entity->weight_counter =3D kzalloc(sizeof(struct bf=
q_weight_counter),
> +=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 GFP_ATOMIC);
> +=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0entity->weight_counter->weight =3D entity->weight;

GFP_ATOMIC allocations are more likely to fail than GFP_KERNEL allocations.
What will happen if kzalloc() returns NULL?

Bart.=

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-31 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-31 12:47 [PATCH V2 00/16] Introduce the BFQ I/O scheduler Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 01/16] block, bfq: introduce the BFQ-v0 I/O scheduler as an extra scheduler Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 02/16] block, bfq: add full hierarchical scheduling and cgroups support Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 03/16] block, bfq: improve throughput boosting Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 04/16] block, bfq: modify the peak-rate estimator Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 15:31   ` Bart Van Assche
2017-04-04 10:42     ` Paolo Valente
2017-04-04 15:28       ` Bart Van Assche
2017-04-06 19:37         ` Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 05/16] block, bfq: add more fairness with writes and slow processes Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 06/16] block, bfq: improve responsiveness Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 07/16] block, bfq: reduce I/O latency for soft real-time applications Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 08/16] block, bfq: preserve a low latency also with NCQ-capable drives Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 09/16] block, bfq: reduce latency during request-pool saturation Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 10/16] block, bfq: add Early Queue Merge (EQM) Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 11/16] block, bfq: reduce idling only in symmetric scenarios Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 15:20   ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2017-04-07  7:47     ` Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 12/16] block, bfq: boost the throughput on NCQ-capable flash-based devices Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 13/16] block, bfq: boost the throughput with random I/O on NCQ-capable HDDs Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 14/16] block, bfq: handle bursts of queue activations Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 15/16] block, bfq: remove all get and put of I/O contexts Paolo Valente
2017-03-31 12:47 ` [PATCH V2 16/16] block, bfq: split bfq-iosched.c into multiple source files Paolo Valente
2017-04-02 10:02   ` kbuild test robot
2017-04-11 11:00     ` Paolo Valente
2017-04-12  8:39       ` [kbuild-all] " Ye Xiaolong
2017-04-12  9:24         ` Paolo Valente
2017-04-12 16:05           ` Paolo Valente
2017-04-10 16:56 ` [PATCH V2 00/16] Introduce the BFQ I/O scheduler Bart Van Assche
2017-04-11  8:43   ` Paolo Valente

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