From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay2.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.29]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F87329DFB for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2013 17:20:42 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by relay2.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E13DC30406B for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2013 15:20:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.145]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id B76ob2a32W7mh3OZ for ; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 15:20:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 08:20:04 +1000 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] xfs: fix some new memory allocation failures Message-ID: <20130902222004.GI12779@dastard> References: <1378119180-31380-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <5224C4E9.8080604@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5224C4E9.8080604@sgi.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Mark Tinguely Cc: xfs@oss.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 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs