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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] xfs: fix some new memory allocation failures
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 08:20:04 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130902222004.GI12779@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5224C4E9.8080604@sgi.com>

On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 12:03:37PM -0500, Mark Tinguely wrote:
> On 09/02/13 05:52, Dave Chinner wrote:
> >Hi folks,
> >
> >These failures are a result of order-4 allocations being done on v5
> >filesystems to support the large ACL count xattrs. The first patch
> >puts out usual falbback to vmalloc workaround in place. The second
> >patch factors all the places we now have this fallback-to-vmalloc
> >and makes it transparent to the callers.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Dave.
> 
> Thanks for clean up. Broken record time: Do we really need order
> allocation in the filesystem? Esp in xfs_ioctl.c.

I don't understand your question. Are you asking why we need high
order allocation?

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-02 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-02 10:52 [PATCH 0/2] xfs: fix some new memory allocation failures Dave Chinner
2013-09-02 10:52 ` [PATCH 1/2] xfs: fix memory allocation failures with ACLs Dave Chinner
2013-09-06 19:59   ` Mark Tinguely
2013-09-02 10:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfs: factor all the kmalloc-or-vmalloc fallback allocations Dave Chinner
2013-09-06 20:37   ` Mark Tinguely
2013-09-02 17:03 ` [PATCH 0/2] xfs: fix some new memory allocation failures Mark Tinguely
2013-09-02 22:20   ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2013-09-03 13:07     ` Mark Tinguely
2013-09-03 20:04       ` Dave Chinner
2013-09-03 20:46         ` Mark Tinguely
2013-09-03 21:16           ` Dave Chinner
2013-09-03 22:38             ` Mark Tinguely
2013-09-10 22:40 ` Ben Myers

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