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From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] xfs: fix some new memory allocation failures
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 12:03:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5224C4E9.8080604@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1378119180-31380-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>

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.

--Mark.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-02 17:03 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 ` Mark Tinguely [this message]
2013-09-02 22:20   ` [PATCH 0/2] xfs: fix some new memory allocation failures Dave Chinner
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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