From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752614Ab0KHPoV (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Nov 2010 10:44:21 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:2111 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751421Ab0KHPoU (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Nov 2010 10:44:20 -0500 From: Jeff Moyer To: Dave Chinner Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] dio: add a mempool for the unaligned block structures References: <1289202023-15102-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <1289202023-15102-4-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> X-PGP-KeyID: 1F78E1B4 X-PGP-CertKey: F6FE 280D 8293 F72C 65FD 5A58 1FF8 A7CA 1F78 E1B4 X-PCLoadLetter: What the f**k does that mean? Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 10:40:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1289202023-15102-4-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> (Dave Chinner's message of "Mon, 8 Nov 2010 18:40:23 +1100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dave Chinner writes: > From: Dave Chinner > > We need the zero block tracking structure allocation to succeed. > Silently failing and potentially allowing data corruption is not an > option. Add a mempool to ensure this allocation will always succeed. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner Acked-by: Jeff Moyer