From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] xfs: use scalable vmap API
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:33:09 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100125083309.GF19664@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100125081750.GA20012@infradead.org>
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 03:17:50AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 06:54:45PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Is this on a 32-bit system with small vmalloc area?
>
> Yes.
OK, I would say it could easily be just due to fragmentation then.
> > When the vmap allocation fails, it would be good to basically see the
> > alloc_map and dirty_map for each of the vmap_blocks. This is going to be
> > a lot of information. Basically for all blocks with
> > free+dirty == VMAP_BBMAP_BITS are ones that could be released and you
> > could try the alloc again.
>
> Any easy way to get them? Sorry, not uptodate on your new vmalloc
> implementation anymore.
Let me try writing a few (tested) patches here first that I can send you.
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-21 8:25 [patch 1/2] xfs: remove old vmap cache Nick Piggin
2008-10-21 8:27 ` [patch 2/2] xfs: use scalable vmap API Nick Piggin
2008-10-21 12:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-22 9:30 ` Nick Piggin
2010-01-19 12:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-25 7:54 ` Nick Piggin
2010-01-25 8:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-25 8:33 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2010-01-25 12:37 ` Nick Piggin
2010-01-25 12:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-25 21:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-27 8:38 ` Nick Piggin
2010-02-01 11:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-02-01 11:28 ` Nick Piggin
2010-01-25 8:30 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-21 12:09 ` [patch 1/2] xfs: remove old vmap cache Christoph Hellwig
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2010-03-16 18:55 [PATCH 2/2] xfs: use scalable vmap API Alex Elder
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