Re: [PATCH 2/8] [I/OAT] Driver for the Intel(R) I/OAT DMA engine

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Evgeniy Polyakov <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 06:29:46PM -0800, Leech, Christopher ([email protected]) wrote:
>  > From: Chris Leech [mailto:[email protected]] 
>  > Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 6:29 PM
>  > To: 
>  > Subject: [PATCH 2/8] [I/OAT] Driver for the Intel(R) I/OAT DMA engine
>  > 
>  > 
>  > Adds a new ioatdma driver
> 
>  enumerate_dma_channels() is still broken, if it can not fail add NOFAIL
>  gfp flag.

The __GFP_NOFAIL flag is there to mark lame-and-buggy-code which doesn't
know how to handle ENOMEM.  I went through the kernel, found all the
retry-until-it-works loops and consolidated their behaviour in the page
allocator instead.

Really we should fix them all up.  Adding new users of __GFP_NOFAIL
would not be good.
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