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From: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
To: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3][RFC] x86: x2apic/cluster: Do not handle cpumask allocation errors
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 17:19:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1337645958.1997.172.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120518102659.GC31517@dhcp-26-207.brq.redhat.com>

On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 12:26 +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> With this fix allocations of cpumasks are assumed always successfull
> and possible failures result in BUG().

BUG check for memory allocation failures in IPI path is not a good idea.
We will be using IPI's to flush TLB's before we evict the pages for
recovering from low-memory conditions.  We need to provide a clean fall
back path.

So NAK.

thanks,
suresh


      reply	other threads:[~2012-05-22  0:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-18 10:26 Alexander Gordeev
2012-05-22  0:19 ` Suresh Siddha [this message]

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