From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: juncheng bai <baijuncheng@unitedstack.com>
Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Possible memory allocation deadlock in kmem_alloc and hung task in xfs_log_commit_cil and xlog_cil_push
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 11:58:25 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150709015825.GG3902@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <559D2E52.2070900@unitedstack.com>
On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 10:06:10PM +0800, juncheng bai wrote:
> Hi, All
>
> As far as I know, the patch b3f03bac8132207a20286d5602eda64500c19724
> solves one case which big directory size.
>
> I am not very familiar with xfs, but I think why can't we use vmalloc
> when kmalloc fails?
Because vmalloc space is greatly limited on 32 bit machines and
hence we can't just use vmalloc blindly in these situations.
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-09 1:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-07 9:29 Possible memory allocation deadlock in kmem_alloc and hung task in xfs_log_commit_cil and xlog_cil_push Gavin Guo
2015-07-07 23:37 ` Dave Chinner
2015-07-08 12:34 ` Gavin Guo
2015-07-08 14:06 ` juncheng bai
2015-07-09 1:58 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2015-08-28 12:54 ` Gavin Guo
2015-08-29 22:31 ` Dave Chinner
2015-08-31 7:33 ` Gavin Guo
2015-12-07 16:46 ` Gavin Guo
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