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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 3.2 73/87] fs: buffer: move allocation failure loop into the allocator
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    On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 10:13 -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
    > Hi Ben,
    >
    > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 01:44:29PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
    > > 3.2.53-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
    > >
    > > ------------------
    > >
    > > From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    > >
    > > commit 84235de394d9775bfaa7fa9762a59d91fef0c1fc upstream.
    > >
    > > Buffer allocation has a very crude indefinite loop around waking the
    > > flusher threads and performing global NOFS direct reclaim because it can
    > > not handle allocation failures.
    >
    > Please don't apply this, it's part of a bigger series and was only
    > tagged as a reminder. I'll send the full series to stable when the
    > current cgroup instabilities are ironed out, just to be sure these
    > patches are not the problem.

    OK, I'll drop this.

    Ben.

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    Ben Hutchings
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