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Revision 62b62ad873f2accad9222a4d7ffbe1e93f6714c1 authored by Boaz Harrosh on 08 June 2012, 01:30:40 UTC, committed by Boaz Harrosh on 20 July 2012, 08:47:43 UTC
Do to OOM situations the ore might fail to allocate all resources
needed for IO of the full request. If some progress was possible
it would proceed with a partial/short request, for the sake of
forward progress.

Since this crashes NFS-core and exofs is just fine without it just
remove this contraption, and fail.

TODO:
	Support real forward progress with some reserved allocations
	of resources, such as mem pools and/or bio_sets

[Bug since 3.2 Kernel]
CC: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org>
CC: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@tonian.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
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Tip revision: 62b62ad873f2accad9222a4d7ffbe1e93f6714c1 authored by Boaz Harrosh on 08 June 2012, 01:30:40 UTC
ore: Remove support of partial IO request (NFS crash)
Tip revision: 62b62ad
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