From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Frank Steiner <fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix leak with bounced bio's
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 16:36:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040909143656.GB1737@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <414069DF.9000804@bio.ifi.lmu.de>
On Thu, Sep 09 2004, Frank Steiner wrote:
> Jens Axboe wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >This might fix the last leak of memory reported with cd writing, the
> >current highmem bounce code will leak n-1 pages for any n page bio where
> >n > 1. CD writing typically uses 16 pages bios, so it is affected.
>
>
> it fixes the leak for us that I described a while back
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109360958318479&w=2
>
> Great :-))
Great, thanks for confirming!
Maybe we should unconditionally bounce all bios for a while in a test
kernel, to make sure that all bouncing bugs are shaken out ;-)
--
Jens Axboe
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-09 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-09 8:42 [PATCH] fix leak with bounced bio's Jens Axboe
2004-09-09 14:34 ` Frank Steiner
2004-09-09 14:36 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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