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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Frank Steiner <fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix leak with bounced bio's
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 16:36:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040909143656.GB1737@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <414069DF.9000804@bio.ifi.lmu.de>

On Thu, Sep 09 2004, Frank Steiner wrote:
> Jens Axboe wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >This might fix the last leak of memory reported with cd writing, the
> >current highmem bounce code will leak n-1 pages for any n page bio where
> >n > 1. CD writing typically uses 16 pages bios, so it is affected.
> 
> 
> it fixes the leak for us that I described a while back
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109360958318479&w=2
> 
> Great :-))

Great, thanks for confirming!

Maybe we should unconditionally bounce all bios for a while in a test
kernel, to make sure that all bouncing bugs are shaken out ;-)

-- 
Jens Axboe


      reply	other threads:[~2004-09-09 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-09  8:42 [PATCH] fix leak with bounced bio's Jens Axboe
2004-09-09 14:34 ` Frank Steiner
2004-09-09 14:36   ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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