Re: [PATCH 0/2] xfs: fix some new memory allocation failures

Dave Chinner
2013-09-02T22:20:42Z

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.
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Dave Chinner
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