From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chase Venters Subject: Re: memory leak in scsi_cmd_cache 2.6.15 Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:46:48 -0600 Message-ID: <200601281347.10531.chase.venters@clientec.com> References: <87ek2td4i9.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> <20060128192714.GI9750@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from relay03.pair.com ([209.68.5.17]:8464 "HELO relay03.pair.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750716AbWA1TrP (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jan 2006 14:47:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20060128192714.GI9750@suse.de> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jens Axboe Cc: Nix , Ariel , Jamie Heilman , Arjan van de Ven , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 28 January 2006 13:26, Jens Axboe wrote: > It's not a bad data point, it just confirms that setting ->ordered_flush > to 0 in the SATA drivers will fix the leak. So really, it's as expected. > So far apparently nobody tried it, suggested it twice. In case you still wanted the data point, I just set ordered_flush to 0 on my ata_piix and the slab leak disappeared. Thanks, Chase