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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] xfs: fix some new memory allocation failures
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To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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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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