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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Kevin Corry <kevcorry@us.ibm.com>
Cc: evms-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	rajesh_ghanekar@persistent.co.in, dm-devel@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Evms-devel] dm snapshot problem
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:44:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050113194448.0e3f15c9.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200501132142.26663.kevcorry@us.ibm.com>

Kevin Corry <kevcorry@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Now that you mention it, the memory pages to hold the copied data is allocated 
>  at the time the snapshot device is activated, and uses 
>  alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL). Should we switch this to alloc_page(GFP_HIGHUSER)?

Sure, if possible.  You'll need to map them in with kmap_atomic() when
actually altering their contents, of course.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-14  3:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <41E35950.9040201@persistent.co.in>
     [not found] ` <200501110834.42839.kevcorry@us.ibm.com>
     [not found]   ` <41E5116E.7000709@persistent.co.in>
2005-01-12 16:36     ` [Evms-devel] dm snapshot problem Kevin Corry
2005-01-13  6:51       ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-13 21:26         ` Kevin Corry
2005-01-13 22:34           ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-14  3:42             ` Kevin Corry
2005-01-14  3:44               ` Andrew Morton [this message]
     [not found]     ` <20050112183549.GA14782@osdl.org>
2005-01-13 21:58       ` Kevin Corry

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