From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs: fallback to vmalloc in btrfs_compare_tree
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 19:50:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160330175016.GE27917@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160330171044.GB20816@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:10:45AM -0700, Liu Bo wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 04:05:43PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> > The allocation of node could fail if the memory is too fragmented for a
> > given node size, practically observed with 64k.
>
> It's not a critical path. Why not use vmalloc directly?
We should try to avoid vmalloc if possible.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-30 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-30 14:05 [PATCH] btrfs: fallback to vmalloc in btrfs_compare_tree David Sterba
2016-03-30 17:10 ` Liu Bo
2016-03-30 17:50 ` David Sterba [this message]
2016-03-30 17:55 ` Jean-Denis Girard
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