From: David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>
To: "Theodore Tso" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/17] jbd2: replace __get_free_pages() with kmalloc()
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2026 09:33:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260605093332.7b067876@pumpkin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ximvn6jwgtam665a4droqkp73o55kwvd5uukyidwjesmysobth@oe7rigpsjfkz>
On Thu, 4 Jun 2026 10:05:52 -0400
"Theodore Tso" <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
...
> I suppose we could do it with kmalloc() with some flags which to
> prevent forced reclaim / compaction, and if that fails, then fall back
> to vmalloc(). Is there a better way?
There is already kvalloc().
I'm not sure how hard that tries to get kmalloc() to succeed.
-- David
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Ted
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-05 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-23 17:54 [PATCH 00/17] fs: replace __get_free_pages() call with kmalloc() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 01/17] quota: allocate dquot_hash " Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-25 16:10 ` Jan Kara
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 02/17] proc: replace __get_free_page() " Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-25 16:11 ` Jan Kara
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 03/17] ocfs2/dlm: " Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-25 2:50 ` Joseph Qi
2026-05-25 16:13 ` Jan Kara
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 04/17] nilfs2: replace get_zeroed_page() with kzalloc() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-25 17:07 ` Viacheslav Dubeyko
2026-05-27 16:02 ` Ryusuke Konishi
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 05/17] NFS: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc() in nfs_show_devname() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 06/17] NFS: remove unused page and page2 in nfs4_replace_transport() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 07/17] NFSD: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc() in nfsd_buffered_readdir() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-23 18:45 ` Jeff Layton
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 08/17] libfs: simple_transaction_get(): replace get_zeroed_page() with kzalloc() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 09/17] jfs: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 10/17] jbd2: replace __get_free_pages() " Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-25 16:17 ` Jan Kara
2026-05-25 17:21 ` David Laight
[not found] ` <ahSNFmwAA17pMy6o@casper.infradead.org>
2026-05-26 9:35 ` David Laight
2026-06-03 13:50 ` Theodore Tso
2026-06-04 6:14 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-06-04 14:05 ` Theodore Tso
2026-06-04 14:46 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-06-05 8:33 ` David Laight [this message]
2026-06-05 9:50 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 11/17] isofs: replace __get_free_page() " Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-25 16:17 ` Jan Kara
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 12/17] fuse: " Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-26 15:00 ` Miklos Szeredi
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 13/17] fs/select: " Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-25 16:19 ` Jan Kara
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 14/17] fs/namespace: use __getname() to allocate mntpath buffer Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-25 16:22 ` Jan Kara
2026-05-26 9:06 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-05-28 11:54 ` Christian Brauner
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 15/17] configfs: replace __get_free_pages() with kzalloc() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-25 16:22 ` Jan Kara
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 16/17] binfmt_misc: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-23 17:54 ` [PATCH 17/17] bfs: replace get_zeroed_page() with kzalloc() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-05-27 12:05 ` [PATCH 00/17] fs: replace __get_free_pages() call with kmalloc() Christian Brauner
2026-06-05 20:00 ` [PATCH 00/17] " Zi Yan
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