Re: [HPDD-discuss] [PATCH 2/11] Staging: lustre: fld: Use kzalloc and kfree
> Yes the LARGE functions do the switching. I was expecting also
patches to remove the
> OBD_ALLOC_LARGE functions as well which is not the case here. I do have one question
still. The
> macro __OBD_MALLOC_VERBOSE allowed the ability to simulate memory allocation failures
at
> a certain percentage rate. Does something exist in the kernel to duplicate that
functionality?
Yes, no need for lustre to duplicate yet-another-thing the kernel
already provides :)
The reason for this is that libcfs was written 10+ years ago which was before linux had
such nice
features. At that time it was needed to fill the gaps missing which is no longer the case.
Libcfs is
really showing its age :-)