Re: [PATCH] 2.5.44: lkcd (9/9): dump driver and build files

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Tue, Oct 22 2002, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 19:43:20 +0530, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> 
> >> +
> >> +	if ((dump_bio = kmalloc(sizeof(struct bio), GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL) { +
> >> 	DUMP_PRINTF("Cannot allocate bio\n"); +		retval = -ENOMEM;
> >> +		goto err2;
> >> +	}
> > 
> > Shouldn't you use the generic bio allocator?
> > 
> 
> Not sure that this should come from the bio mempool. Objects
> allocated from the mem pool are expected to be released back to
> the pool within a reasonable period (after i/o is done), which is
> not quite the case here.
> 
> Dump preallocates the bio early when configured and holds on to 
> it all through the time the system is up (avoids allocs at 
> actual dump time). Doesn't seem like the right thing to hold
> on to a bio mempool element that long.

Definitely, one must not use the bio pool for long term allocations.

-- 
Jens Axboe